I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.