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

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

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.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.