Lane Shackleton
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2023 by Lane Shackleton · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Oct 1, 2023 negative
Shackleton: Product reviews fail due to standing attendees and single-threaded agendas
“Most review forums are You know, product reviews or decision forums is that they generally suffer from two problems that are like kind of hard to spot unless you've sat through, you know, hundreds of them. The first is they have standing attendees. And the sec…”
Oct 1, 2023
Shackleton: Assume people don't care to force sharper, concise communication
“You know, I think most people can be like way more concise with their communication. Like even internally, people don't care. You know, like you should assume that people don't care. Or, you know, if you're, you know, talking to customers, writing a blog post …”
Oct 1, 2023 negative
Shackleton: Discussing product work in 1-on-1s is an anti-pattern
“A lot of work and project work tends to get discussed in one on ones. And actually that's like an, it's really an anti pattern. It's a pattern you should try to avoid. So if you're talking to your manager about product work what's not happening in that moment …”
Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Oct 1, 2023 negative
Shackleton: Tech career ladders are overly complex and inconsistent
“Most companies have career ladders with, like, 10 or 15 levels, and, you know, as soon as they hit some scale, the levels, there's, like, levels between levels, and I feel like I looked at the one at Google and, you know, you kind of, like, needed a PhD to dec…”
Oct 1, 2023
Shackleton: Tracking 'Oh Shit' Moments Calibrates Career Growth
“The basic kind of thesis is that moments that stretch you are moments that you feel uncomfortable in, or you find yourself saying like, oh shit, you know, I shouldn't be here. I'm underqualified to be here. Those are the moments you should be seeking out, righ…”
Oct 1, 2023 negative
Shackleton: Weighting all feedback equally slows organizations down
“Otherwise every bit of feedback is taken the same, which is just fundamentally like the impact of that is it slows everything down. Cause now you're looking at like a list of pieces, a hundred pieces of feedback and you're going like, oh man, we gotta address …”
Oct 1, 2023 positive
Shackleton: Test candidates by having them explain topics to laypeople and experts
“I sometimes do a version of making them explain it two different ways after and making the candidate explain it two different ways and saying like, okay, now you have to explain that to, you know, your grandparent. And then like now, you know, you just told me…”