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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

By pushing the envelope, we can challenge our assumptions about consequences and get better at what we fear at the same time. As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings. Just change it. Sure, it seems efficient.