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Oxide and Friends

Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors

Jul 11, 2024
01:26:24
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Special guest Charity Majors joins hosts to discuss innovation tokens, balancing boring vs. innovative projects, social media changes, custom storage systems, observability in systems, technology choices, autonomy in decision-making, infrastructure management, domain name negotiations, tool selection, and promoting continuous growth in engineering decisions.
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Quick takeaways

  • Innovation tokens reflect company's focus on problem-solving over cool ideas.
  • Shifting towards problem-focused strategies enhances product development efficiency.

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Focusing on Problem-Solving in Product Development

In the past, the approach to product planning involved ideas like 'what would be cool to build this quarter.' However, the company has now shifted towards a more problem-focused approach. This change has led to product teams working together to identify and solve specific problems. The collaborative effort has resulted in innovative features like 'relational fields' stemming from bottom-up prototyping.

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