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Dennis Lennard: Managing hurt feelings from sound critique is the recipient's problem
“Whenever you feel hurt by someone's feedback, or what someone says about something you've done, it's your own problem. Even if it feels like they're being a jerk to you, it's your own problem, as long as what they say is sound conceptually.”
Dennis Lennard: Corporate politeness creates groupthink and suppresses internal criticism
“It's also very common to see corporations or large teams who fall into the group thing trap because they're in large organizations. There is a lot of culture around not upsetting people and being nice to each other, which is of course great in terms of getting…”
Dennis Lennard: Small silos reduce social friction during product evaluation
“I think it definitely helps creating little silos where the product or any kind of challenge can be looked at from different perspectives is useful because obviously you, when there are fewer people around, there's less to worry about in terms of this is going…”
Dennis Lennard: Teams should prefer overly harsh criticism over conflict avoidance
“It helps a lot to develop a culture that encourages being critical. So that means that you might prefer having people who are too critical or maybe criticism being phrased too harsh in terms of how you communicate it rather than a culture where you cannot tole…”
Dennis Lennard: Great products must conform to objective reality, not feelings
“If you want to do great things unfortunately you have to conform to reality and not to your own emotion or to whatever you agree with everyone else. Life and reality is very harsh. We don't have to be harsh to each other. But as long as we're trying something …”
Dennis Lennard: Discomfort does not indicate that a decision is wrong
“The fact that you don't feel good about it is not an indicator that it's not the right thing to do. Oftentimes, the right thing to do doesn't feel good at all.”
Dennis Lennard: Every feature added to a product introduces dangerous complexity
“Anything that you allow into the product is going to add a lot more complexity than you think. So it's very, very dangerous. You should treat it like it's radioactive. You need something in the product, but everything you put in is dangerous.”
Dennis Lennard: True software innovation requires perfecting a single architectural principle
“On the other hand, if you take one principle or one aspect of this entire ecosystem, perhaps it could be the aspect of integrating all of these. In some way. And if you really figure out how they can be integrated or that one principle, how it could be made ex…”