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by supersync 4y ago
What’s sobering is even a prescient leader like Butterfield was snowed despite that clear evidence. I tell everyone founder - acquisition is the death of everything you worked for. Acquisitions teams are sales teams with 0 follow on account
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by supersync 4y ago
https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima Is my goto
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by supersync 4y ago
Great story! I’m curious what use cases are common for the integration?
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by supersync 4y ago
I think your example is actually a counter example. This is also how most people, regardless of age, learn. The key is - did you have to warn your son again? I subscribe to natural consequence parenting within guardrails. People learn from
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by supersync 4y ago
Fascinating. We’re seeing the same thing. Seeing a few companies opt for Coda as a way to convert some sheets to processes. Here’s what we’ve done with it: https://supsync.com/squared-away/
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by supersync 4y ago
It’s time to approach your search differently Learn to build a network inside the companies you want to work for Start with Sarah Johnston’s advice: https://briefcasecoach.com/ Having worked in HR - you are trapped in the A
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by supersync 4y ago
Richard - thank you for sharing your journey with us. Your work and achievements are an inspiration, even now. Sometimes progress really is one person at a time. You & your team changed the lives of millions. My own social startup faile
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by supersync 4y ago
I’m not sure your 2nd point is that controversial. Many clear examples of companies manufacturing scarcity in order to create profits - light bulbs being an easy example.
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by supersync 4y ago
KYC is the reason we have an archaic banking system while the rest of the world leap frogs us. Tough to solve when petrodollars are still the reserve currency globally.
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by supersync 4y ago
A very good example of how easy it is to assume incompetence when you don’t understand the constraints.
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by supersync 4y ago
It’s more of a Disney/Pixar situation Slack is the wedge the Salesforce product team is using to reinvent itself.
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by supersync 4y ago
This is fantastic. I’d love to chat with you about it. Super powerful to have intel on the tech stack. Might be a bigger opp for you in RevOps. I’m on Twitter @briansowards or your can find email in bio.
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by supersync 4y ago
A semi-interesting read on a topic I often think about. I’ll boil it down to “new systems generate new social systems, that become imitations of themselves, that then cannibalizes the initial system.” The insight I see here is we need new s
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by supersync 4y ago
Cost centers: anything that improves your experience as an employee. It’s smart to move out of it, but the fact that you have to in order to progress is a clear indicator why companies will perpetually undervalue talent - even in competitiv
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by supersync 4y ago
This is a very fair concern. First off, most of this funding will go to a building. The rest will go mostly to an endowment. The concentration of mega-gifts at the top has very perverse impacts. Harvard built a $100M building a few years ag
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by supersync 4y ago
You landed on the surprising root cause: “Doesn’t add business value” But do you know how the business makes money (the actual processes)? Can anyone tell you how to add value in concrete terms? Because in over a decade of consulting on tec
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by supersync 4y ago
Well said. The glaring piece missing from this analysis is the psychology of the young men themselves. Raising two young men myself, I’m blown away by how powerful cultivating intrinsic motivation is. My eldest just went from constant gamin
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by supersync 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. A book “The Psychology of Money” talks about this. How people handle money (successful or not) is very different depending on whether or not they experienced inflation as a child.
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by supersync 4y ago
The contribution of engineers to capital creation massively exceeds 20% over the past 30 years. Relative pay increase is such a scam. Having seen it up close, the even greater issue for society is this program & how it’s used has create
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by supersync 4y ago
Here’s the sad reality Admin controls the money They spend 99% of it on tools they use for their own jobs The 1% is whatever fad they are supposed to buy into in order to maintain a semblance of legitimacy (“student success” for example) If
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by supersync 4y ago
I’m dead serious I’d pay an $80 to $100 premium for a dumb TV I’d even consider replacing a couple Smart TVs are just terrible
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by supersync 4y ago
Stay at 80% WIP (work in progress) It’s a basic productivity issue: Trading a burst of short term productivity for burn out is the equivalent of taking a pay day loan Just not worth it except in the rarest of occasions
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by supersync 4y ago
I regularly ask at the start of meetings to take a quick water/bathroom break Almost everyone appreciates it and does the same If possible, I go off camera and make it a “walk & talk” so we both get some time outside
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by supersync 4y ago
Check out Make, n8n, workflow86 Agree that coded integrations are still very relevant, but the addressable surface for UI is pretty large now.
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by supersync 4y ago
Max, check out “The Effortless Experience” - how Verizon took care of this same challenge. There’s a way to provide cost optimized customer service that doesn’t put the burden on the customer to drive the process.
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by supersync 5y ago
This problem inspired me to found Supersynchronous. While I’ve been more of a product leader than engineer, my best friends are engineers and we’ve had many long talks about the experience. After serving as an agile coach, SaaS founder, and