People are more
important than ideas.
- Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
- Recommended by Adam Brault, &yet.
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1. I am not smarter than you.
2. I do not think I’m smarter than you.
This is my story.
Photo Credit: Farmhouse Conf. 5
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The best way to make sure
your experience doesn’t go to
waste is to invest it in the
people around you.
- @nrrrdcore (me)
Why am I telling my story?
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No one is self-taught.
We’re all community-taught.
- ??? Maybe @jllord? Yea, follow @jllord.
That’s why you’re all sitting here.
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People are more
important than ideas.
- Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
I didn’t always believe this. But in the past 10 years or so, I’ve learned a lot about people, how to navigate them, and how to work with them.
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People are difficult.
- But they’re worth your time and your energy.
- It takes a village to build the web.
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Focus on giving feedback.
- “No.”
- “I hate this.”
- “Put it back the way it was.”
- There’s nowhere to go from “no.” Say “yes and…”
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- One really great strategy for giving feedback is something known as the shit sandwich.
- @rtomayko
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Focus on communicating
calmly & respectfully.
- @ceejbot’s air traffic control analogy.
- Approach pull requests with empathy.
- “Success has a lot more to do with how you act than how you look.”
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Your community will mimic you.
- @jresig
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Ask for help.
- My favorite part of being a designer is being on a team where my weaknesses are complimented by my teammates’ strengths and vice versa.
- Sometimes soliciting feedback isn’t about you.
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If you wanna go fast [and
break things], go alone…
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If you wanna go far [and do
meaningful work], go together.
- *sports analogy*
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If you wanna go far [and do
meaningful work], go together.
- @tenaciouscb
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What people say [yes, even
about you] when you’re not
around is none of your business.
- @tenaciouscb
- This is probably one of the hardest thing to accept. But once you do, you’re free.
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Every single one of your co-
workers deserves your respect.
- @nrrrdcore (me)
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People will consistently
choose to do the wrong thing…
- @nrrrdcore (me)
- The most important lesson from GitHub.
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If doing the right thing even
slightly inconveniences them.
- @nrrrdcore (me)
- This is just the reality of how people operate.
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We can do better.
- @nrrrdcore (me)
- The most important lesson from GitHub.
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A thousand tiny paper cuts.
- @ashedryden
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I am not a victim.
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Better than the alternative.
- I really believe that I did GitHub a favor.
- You have to live with you for the rest of your life.
- Act with integrity.
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Be the red moon you want
to see in space.
- Or something like that. - @pushinghoops
- Strive to be the person you’d want to work with.
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They will try to trick you into
thinking you’re competing with
the other [x] in the room.
- Since nrrrdcoregate, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about diversity on teams. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about a few of these ideas with
you all.
- To women:
- Tina Fey in Bossypants
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…You’re competing with
everyone in the room.
- Tina Fey in Bossypants
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Have an exit strategy.
- Katherine Krug
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Successful leaders embrace the
reality that their models may be
wrong or incomplete.
Only when we admit what we don't
know can we ever hope to learn it.
- My best advice to managers, founders, etc.:
- Acknowledge that you may be wrong.
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Listen.
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We acknowledge we will always have
problems, many of them hidden from
our view; that we work hard to
uncover these problems…
Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
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Even if doing so means making
ourselves uncomfortable; and that,
when we come across a problem, we
marshal all of our energies to solve it.
- Act.
- Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.