Ryan Nguyen
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Writing
My notes on things that interest me, including product design, system design, banking, engineering management, personal takes, AI, and more.
- Ownership - what it actually mean?
I used this word a lot, recently Thorsten Ball's tweet really hit me interm of my understand and it really connect with what i have in mind.
- How a standard performance review process works
Performance review is always around goals, checkpoints, calibration, outcome. The calibration room is the part only the one who join know about its detail
- Corporate politics: managing up and spotting the manipulators
2 practical politics skills: make the honest game work with your manager, and raise your guard when transparency disappears
- Why too many people in some context can make a team slower
Adding people can increase coordination, reduce meaningful work, and hide the need to improve the system that why in some case it can make team slower