Values

This is se set of my values and beliefs about working with organizations, people and building products.

Organization

• Core belief: Empowered individuals → Efficient teams → Long-lasting orgs
• Hire the best people you can and get out of their way
• Seek for ownership, accountability and high-agency
  • I want to own that thing and be responsible for all decisions made
  • I am prepared to be accountable for good and bad things
  • I do it because I believe in your dream and I am motivated enough to do the best work I can
• Give people problems and let them to figure it out on their own
  • I am experienced enough to (usually) know what to do, I don't need a set of tasks, checklist or someone to babysit me to check on progress
• Offer freedom & trust people
• Live no-BS culture with low bureaucracy
• Flat structure where everyone is approachable
• Everyone working towards the same goal

Team

• No egoes
• A-players
• Love the craft
  • Pay attention to the tiniest details
  • Push it [craft, industry] forward
  • Never settle
• High quality bar
• Aware it's a team sport
  • respect others
  • always be prepared
  • set good expectations
  • save people's time
• Strong opinions, loosely held
• Question everything, especially status quo
• Go the extra mile
• Inspire and teach others
• Have added value for everyone involved
  • There should be something extra for you or the team when you join together for a work (experience, unique skill, view…).
• Never lie

Building

• Good-enough > perfect
• Fast > anything
  • Fast decisions: we don't need another week to "think something through" when the options are clear
  • Is it good-enough? Ship it, then improve (and repeat)
  • Ask for forgiveness > ask for permission
• Working > talking
• Show > tell
• Ask for forgiveness > ask for permission
• You are not the user
• It's never done
• Iteration is the default
• Outcomes over outputs
  • You should know what moves the needle.
  • With AI is easy to produce slop but did it actually helped to achieve what you want?
• Less is more
  • always strive for the simplest solution possible: simple design, simple architecture and code; we should solve the complexity for the people
  • simple things work better than complicated ones; this include products, teams or companies
  • but being simpler doesn't automatically mean reaching it is easier or faster
• Smaller is better
  • smaller teams ship faster
  • AI-native teams move 100x faster
• Average is not an option
  • Thanks to AI, everyone can deliver average work
  • To stand out and success, you need to have high bar and standards
  • You believe you should put out world-class quality products
• Roles don't matter
• Best products are defined by what's not included in them.
  • Saying "no" more often than "yes" is key in the process

Believs & behaviours

• Progress & growth, or die
  • what is not moving, will eventually die Everything today must be better than yesterday: organization, people, product
• The only constant is change, be flexible
  • Everything might and will change over time on a micro and macro level
  • To survive, you need to be adaptable
• Bias towards action
  • Can we do it now? let's do it!
• Playtime is useful as work time
  • This is the safe space where you will try new stuff / probably fail and learn
• Failure is part of the process
  • Innovation requires failures
• Have fun
  • We're here for the marathon, not a sprint.
  • You genuinely have to love what you do and have fun doing it.
  • Fun keeps you in the game way longer than you ever would have been otherwise.
  • And people can't compete with someone who is having fun
  • And also for be fun to work with for your mates