How to ship fast

How to ship fast
by macbudkowski.eth5764 🥝 • 2y • varunsrinivasan.com
AI summary of the linked article

The article argues that small teams searching for product-market fit should protect speed by cutting distractions, bureaucracy and unnecessary hires. It advises avoiding "side quests," meaning any work that is neither writing code nor talking to users, and declining them politely. It recommends a daily maker's schedule with one short standup, and skipping big-company practices such as sprint planning and product specs. It also says hiring should stay small, with people who can ship fast, and that tools should be chosen to speed shipping, so a new hire can fix a bug and deploy it on their first day.

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Find people who enjoy solving user problems and move with urgency, even when no one is watching. These aren’t teachable skills so make sure someone has it before you hire them.

I‘m very doubtful of this claim. If these skills aren‘t teachable, what are they? Genetic?
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Haha, that's a fair question. I'd guess they are teachable, but it might take a lot of time to learn them.
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