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274: Managing People Versus Servers with Arpit Mohan
02:03 - Arpit’s Superpower: Tenacity
05:03 - Managing People vs Servers
- Establish Consistent Language and Shared Level of Understanding
- Written Word
- Following Up
- User Manual (Persona Investigation)
- Consensus Algorithms: Single Sources of Truth & Responsibility
- Independent Failures: Build and Establish Trust
- Conway’s Law
- Somathesis – Collective Problem Solving: Music, Science, Software - Jessica Kerr
- Reliability & Uptime
Reflections:
John: Meeting minutes and clear communication is a form of active listening.
Mae: Thinking about trust in terms of reliability and uptime.
Arpit: Collective Problem Solving: Music, Science, Software - Jessica Kerr
Mandy: Tenacity.
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