Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.