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James Cowling (Convex)

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Value Statements Are Not Actionable

"I really, really hate value statements that say things like, we care about correctness and performance and being nice to each other," he says. "When these two teams were not alined on the why, the why we should do things, every other issue became a conflict." The best valued statements i've seen are stuff like, care about like this. That's the value t you can't just tack a bunch of virtues on".

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