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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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The Impact of Policy and Constraints on Strategy and Innovation

The speaker discusses the impact of company policies on engineering focus, citing the example of Stripe's policy focusing on building innovative features for users rather than building tooling for different programming languages. The speaker emphasizes that good strategy dictates how limited capabilities are invested into problems that matter, and discusses how constraints can drive innovation by forcing a focus on what really matters. The speaker also mentions that bad strategy often stems from a flawed diagnosis of constraints and a desire to believe in unlimited project capabilities.

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