[Almost] Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
Manage your time like Google invests its resources: 70/20/10 via @reuvengorsht
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Designers: 70% on the visual specs for upcoming features, 20% exploring new features, and 10% on wireframes for entirely new concepts/styles.
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Engineers: 70% building features and fixing bugs, 20% on prototyping fledgling ideas or exploratory data analysis, and 10% on speculative initiatives like a 10x performance improvement.
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Sales: 70% on closing deals, 20% on bigger I/Os for the next quarter, and 10% on long-term relationships with agencies and big advertisers.
The Humbling Reason Why It’s Vital that You Encourage Autonomy at Work, via @marciamarcia
“The rule is this: the very best of us only get product decisions right 60% of the time. The rest of the time, we’re wrong … When Savage realized the 60% rule, that made him realize how micromanagement harmed his company. Micromanagement means actively getting involved in decision-making where you’re detached from the problem and lack situational awareness. Under these disconnected conditions, your hit rate on making the right decision as a manager is much, much lower.”
How the next technological revolution starts
“There has been, and continues to be, a lot of discussion about what sort of technology will change everything – 3d printers, AI, space.
That is the wrong way to look at it. It is not technology that does the changing. Deep change comes from reorganizing ourselves around new principles in order to take the best advantage of the new technology.”
Humanity V The Automaton Corporate by @Indy_Johar
“We have unwilling and unknowing let loose an age of global corporate automatons — without the safe guards of Asimov’s Laws.
These automatons are increasingly systemically beyond governance and driven to optimise ghost share holders returns even if the development of those returns destroys the social & environmental capital essential for the viability of its eventual ghost like beneficiaries — us …”
Sensemaking by Igor Kopelnitsky via @sebpaquet
