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MISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have “ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSESEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORDARCHIVEWHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOKHOW TO BE A CULTUREMISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have “ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSESEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORD
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
ARCHIVE - JASON CRAWFORD Taking the plunge ‣ Oct 28, 2019. Organizing for ownership ‣ Sep 14, 2019. Holding a creative vision as a moral principle ‣ Aug 24, 2019. How to jump on a rocket ship ‣ Aug 3, 2019. Missing the light at the end of the tunnel ‣ Jul 27, 2019. 13 Minutes to the Moon ‣Jul 20, 2019.
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSE “Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let's improve online discourse. March 29, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based onthis.
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have THE DILUTION OF PRECISE CONCEPTS So many new terms and concepts are so quickly diluted in the sea of public discourse. “Disruption”, “pivot”, “refactor” all had precise, technical meanings; all have been picked up and tossed about so loosely by casual observers that they stretch intounrecognizability.
THE APOLLO PROJECT AS A STORY OF ADVENTURE AND LEADERSHIP The Apollo Project as a story of adventure and leadership. Today is the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s greatest achievements: the Apollo 11 Moon landing. In honor of this project, and to learn more about it, I’ve been listening to the podcast “ 13 Minutes to the Moon ”. The Apollo project draws the admiration and awe of so many HOW TO JUMP ON A ROCKET SHIP How to jump on a rocket ship. August 3, 2019 ¢erdot; 8 min read So, you read my career management advice and you’ve decided you want to join a mid-stage, hypergrowth startup. Great. Now—how do you go about it? I’m aiming this post at engineers, designers, PMs, and data scientists who are talented and ambitious but not necessarily “initiated” into the world of tech startups. HOW TO KILL A PROJECT BY VASTLY UNDERESTIMATING IT Missing the light at the end of the tunnel How to kill a project by vastly underestimating it. July 27, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When we announced the sunsetting of Fieldbook over a year ago, I wrote a postmortem, in which I called out two major themes.. One was choosing the wrong flagship features: we focused on the ability to build a relational data model. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 · 3 min read. My curse in life is to always make the opposite mistake that everyone else makes. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I read too much advice, and I take it to heart before I understand the full context it came from. JASON CRAWFORDARCHIVEWHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOKHOW TO BE A CULTUREMISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have “ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSESEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORDARCHIVEWHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOKHOW TO BE A CULTUREMISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have “ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSESEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORD
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
ARCHIVE - JASON CRAWFORD Taking the plunge ‣ Oct 28, 2019. Organizing for ownership ‣ Sep 14, 2019. Holding a creative vision as a moral principle ‣ Aug 24, 2019. How to jump on a rocket ship ‣ Aug 3, 2019. Missing the light at the end of the tunnel ‣ Jul 27, 2019. 13 Minutes to the Moon ‣Jul 20, 2019.
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSE “Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let's improve online discourse. March 29, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based onthis.
WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have THE DILUTION OF PRECISE CONCEPTS So many new terms and concepts are so quickly diluted in the sea of public discourse. “Disruption”, “pivot”, “refactor” all had precise, technical meanings; all have been picked up and tossed about so loosely by casual observers that they stretch intounrecognizability.
THE APOLLO PROJECT AS A STORY OF ADVENTURE AND LEADERSHIP The Apollo Project as a story of adventure and leadership. Today is the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s greatest achievements: the Apollo 11 Moon landing. In honor of this project, and to learn more about it, I’ve been listening to the podcast “ 13 Minutes to the Moon ”. The Apollo project draws the admiration and awe of so many HOW TO JUMP ON A ROCKET SHIP How to jump on a rocket ship. August 3, 2019 ¢erdot; 8 min read So, you read my career management advice and you’ve decided you want to join a mid-stage, hypergrowth startup. Great. Now—how do you go about it? I’m aiming this post at engineers, designers, PMs, and data scientists who are talented and ambitious but not necessarily “initiated” into the world of tech startups. HOW TO KILL A PROJECT BY VASTLY UNDERESTIMATING IT Missing the light at the end of the tunnel How to kill a project by vastly underestimating it. July 27, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When we announced the sunsetting of Fieldbook over a year ago, I wrote a postmortem, in which I called out two major themes.. One was choosing the wrong flagship features: we focused on the ability to build a relational data model. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 · 3 min read. My curse in life is to always make the opposite mistake that everyone else makes. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I read too much advice, and I take it to heart before I understand the full context it came from. ARCHIVE - JASON CRAWFORD Archive Recent posts. Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? ‣ Feb 13, 2021 Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars ‣ May 19, 2020; What I still want out of time management tools ‣ Apr 25, 2020; What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile? SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research. July 14, 2019 ¢erdot; 5 min read I was going to write about something else today, but it looks like everyone on Twitter is “IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT Sheryl Sandberg's speech to the graduating class of HBS is worth a read. My favorite part was her relating a conversation in 2001 with Eric Schmidt about an offer she had to work at Google: So I sat down with Eric Schmidt, who had just become the CEO, and I showed him the spreadsheet and I said, this job meets none of my criteria. He put his hand on my spreadsheet and he looked at me and said WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 erdot; 2 min read I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization. July 30, 2013 ¢erdot; 2 min read Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ.But almost everyone misses the point. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER Managers should get their hands dirty The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read My curse in life is toalways
HOW TO PICK A JOB TO OPTIMIZE FOR CAREER GROWTH Career advice from Marc Andreessen How to pick a job to optimize for career growth. June 30, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read When talking to almost any ambitious young person in tech, I find myself referring them to Marc Andreessen’s “Guide to Career Planning”. It’s an excellent series that I wish had been written before I graduated from college—if I’d read it then, it might have changed WHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOK What happened at Fieldbook. May 11, 2018 ¢erdot; 9 min read In mid-2013 I started working on Fieldbook, an information tool that combined the best of a spreadsheet and a database.Today, almost five years later, we announced that we’re shutting it down.For our customers, it’s the sundown of a product; for us, it’s the sundownof a dream.
ARCHIVE - JASON CRAWFORD Archive Recent posts. Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? ‣ Feb 13, 2021 Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars ‣ May 19, 2020; What I still want out of time management tools ‣ Apr 25, 2020; What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile? SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research. July 14, 2019 ¢erdot; 5 min read I was going to write about something else today, but it looks like everyone on Twitter is “IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT Sheryl Sandberg's speech to the graduating class of HBS is worth a read. My favorite part was her relating a conversation in 2001 with Eric Schmidt about an offer she had to work at Google: So I sat down with Eric Schmidt, who had just become the CEO, and I showed him the spreadsheet and I said, this job meets none of my criteria. He put his hand on my spreadsheet and he looked at me and said WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 erdot; 2 min read I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization. July 30, 2013 ¢erdot; 2 min read Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ.But almost everyone misses the point. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER Managers should get their hands dirty The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read My curse in life is toalways
HOW TO PICK A JOB TO OPTIMIZE FOR CAREER GROWTH Career advice from Marc Andreessen How to pick a job to optimize for career growth. June 30, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read When talking to almost any ambitious young person in tech, I find myself referring them to Marc Andreessen’s “Guide to Career Planning”. It’s an excellent series that I wish had been written before I graduated from college—if I’d read it then, it might have changed WHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOK What happened at Fieldbook. May 11, 2018 ¢erdot; 9 min read In mid-2013 I started working on Fieldbook, an information tool that combined the best of a spreadsheet and a database.Today, almost five years later, we announced that we’re shutting it down.For our customers, it’s the sundown of a product; for us, it’s the sundownof a dream.
JASON CRAWFORD
I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress.. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviser to Our World in Data.. Formerly, I was a software engineering manager and ARCHIVE - JASON CRAWFORD Archive Recent posts. Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? ‣ Feb 13, 2021 Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars ‣ May 19, 2020; What I still want out of time management tools ‣ Apr 25, 2020; What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile? WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 erdot; 2 min read I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. “ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSE “Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let's improve online discourse. March 29, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based onthis.
ANNOUNCING PROGRESS STUDIES FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars. May 19, 2020 ¢erdot; 1 min read Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more. HOW TO KILL A PROJECT BY VASTLY UNDERESTIMATING IT Missing the light at the end of the tunnel How to kill a project by vastly underestimating it. July 27, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When we announced the sunsetting of Fieldbook over a year ago, I wrote a postmortem, in which I called out two major themes.. One was choosing the wrong flagship features: we focused on the ability to build a relational data model. THE APOLLO PROJECT AS A STORY OF ADVENTURE AND LEADERSHIP 13 Minutes to the Moon The Apollo Project as a story of adventure and leadership. July 20, 2019 ¢erdot; 5 min read Today is the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s greatest achievements: the Apollo 11Moon landing.
WHO IS SCOTT ALEXANDER AND WHAT IS HE ABOUT? Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? A beginner's guide to Slate Star Codex (now Astral Codex Ten) February 13, 2021 ¢erdot; 5 min read Scott Alexander is my favorite blogger. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER Managers should get their hands dirty The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read My curse in life is toalways
THE REAL FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGE The real first-mover advantage. April 9, 2012 ¢erdot; 1 min read There is a first-mover advantage.But it's not what everyone thinks. It isn't being the first product in a market. It's being the first in a new distribution channel. JASON CRAWFORDARCHIVEWHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOKHOW TO BE A CULTUREMISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
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“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
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WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORDARCHIVEWHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOKHOW TO BE A CULTUREMISMATCH AT AMAZON
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
SPEAKING - JASON CRAWFORD Speaking. I’m an experienced public speaker and have done a number of talks and interviews about technology and startups. If you want me at your conference or on your podcast, email me. (If you’re having me at your conference or on your podcast, you might want my presskit.). Interviews
“10X ENGINEERS”: STEREOTYPES AND RESEARCH 10x refers to the difference between the best and worst developers, not the best and average. This makes a big difference. To my mind it’s easier to believe that the best developers are ~3x more productive than the average, and the worst are ~3x less productive. That could get you to a 10x overall spread. (Note that therefore itdoesn’t
HOW TO WORK WITH “STUPID” PEOPLE On Quora today I saw a question to the effect of: How do I put up with the stupid people I inevitably find myself working with? Here's my answer: I consider myself reasonably intelligent, yet I have had no problem surrounding myself with people at or above my intellectual level. I've also had good relationships with co-workers at all levelsof intelligence.
“ASCEND THE HIERARCHY”: LET'S IMPROVE ONLINE DISCOURSESEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
“IF YOU’RE OFFERED A SEAT ON A ROCKET SHIP, DON’T ASK WHAT If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. In a way Sheryl and Eric are echoing the career advice of Marc Andreessen, who said: Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. WHAT “DISRUPTIVE” ACTUALLY MEANS What “disruptive” actually means. January 24, 2020 ¢erdot; 2 min read RIP Clayton Christensen, who influenced the strategy of an entire generation of founders.. Christensen’s term “disruptive” is used loosely today to mean any big change—but it actually has AMAZON’S “TWO-PIZZA TEAMS”: THE ULTIMATE DIVISIONAL But Amazon took divisional organization to the extreme with two-pizza teams (2PTs, for short). Two-pizza teams are so named because they’re small: 6 to 10 people; you can feed them with two pizzas. The most important aspect of a 2PT isn’t its size, though, but its fitness function. A fitness function is a single key business metricthat the
WHO IS SCOTT ALEXANDER AND WHAT IS HE ABOUT?SEE MORE ONJASONCRAWFORD.ORG
WHY TO NOT SEND THAT DOCUMENT AHEAD OF THE MEETING The silent reading technique Why to NOT send that document ahead of the meeting. June 1, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in themeeting.
JASON CRAWFORD
Jason Crawford. I am the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviserto Our
ANNOUNCING PROGRESS STUDIES FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars. May 19, 2020 ¢erdot; 1 min read Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more. WHAT I STILL WANT OUT OF TIME MANAGEMENT TOOLS What I still want out of time management tools. April 25, 2020 · 2 min read. I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have THE DILUTION OF PRECISE CONCEPTS So many new terms and concepts are so quickly diluted in the sea of public discourse. “Disruption”, “pivot”, “refactor” all had precise, technical meanings; all have been picked up and tossed about so loosely by casual observers that they stretch intounrecognizability.
HOW TRADITIONAL WAYS OF ORGANIZING TEAMS CAN HARM OWNERSHIP Organizing for ownership How traditional ways of organizing teams can harm ownership. September 14, 2019 ¢erdot; 5 min read Now that I am a free agent and am talking to many companies about job opportunities, one of the first questions I’ve been asking them is how they are organized. What follows are some thoughts on this issue and why it’simportant.
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I MADE AS A NEW MANAGER The biggest mistake I made as a new manager. July 6, 2019 · 3 min read. My curse in life is to always make the opposite mistake that everyone else makes. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I read too much advice, and I take it to heart before I understand the full context it came from. HOW TO KILL A PROJECT BY VASTLY UNDERESTIMATING IT Missing the light at the end of the tunnel How to kill a project by vastly underestimating it. July 27, 2019 ¢erdot; 4 min read When we announced the sunsetting of Fieldbook over a year ago, I wrote a postmortem, in which I called out two major themes.. One was choosing the wrong flagship features: we focused on the ability to build a relational data model. WHAT HAPPENED AT FIELDBOOK What happened at Fieldbook. May 11, 2018 ¢erdot; 9 min read In mid-2013 I started working on Fieldbook, an information tool that combined the best of a spreadsheet and a database.Today, almost five years later, we announced that we’re shutting it down.For our customers, it’s the sundown of a product; for us, it’s the sundownof a dream.
AYN RAND AND SILICON VALLEY Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley. October 25, 2012 ¢erdot; 5 min read Travis Kalanick's recent talks at YC Startup School and elsewhere, in which he often decries the interference of protectionist regulations that block competition in the taxi business, have some people talking about how Kalanick has been influenced by Ayn Rand and Objectivism. HOW TO PICK A JOB TO OPTIMIZE FOR CAREER GROWTH Career advice from Marc Andreessen How to pick a job to optimize for career growth. June 30, 2019 ¢erdot; 3 min read When talking to almost any ambitious young person in tech, I find myself referring them to Marc Andreessen’s “Guide to Career Planning”. It’s an excellent series that I wish had been written before I graduated from college—if I’d read it then, it might have changedJASON CRAWFORD
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JASON CRAWFORD
I am the author of The Roots of Progress , a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. I am also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars , an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviser to Our World in Data.
Formerly, I was a software engineering manager and tech startup founder. I was co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook , a hybrid spreadsheet-database (read mypostmortem ).
I’ve also been an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon and Groupon, and was at a few other startups as co-founder or early employee. Long ago I helped build a biotech supercomputer for D. E. Shaw Research . Full resume on LinkedIn . THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS The Roots of Progress is where I write about the history of technology & industry, and more generally the story of human progress. This and related projects are my currentfull-time focus.
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Separately, I write here sporadically about startups, tech, business, and life. My writing has been featured on All Things D and SoftwareLead Weekly .
Some of my top posts: * What happened at Fieldbook * Minimum Viable Culture * Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisionalorganization
* How to be a culture mismatch at Amazon * What allows Amazon to be so innovative? * How to work with “stupid” people * The real first-mover advantage* Steve Jobs
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