Build better companies

Too often we get stuck in the technical details of building products and apps, but in order to truly build better products we need to start thinking about how to build better companies.

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1. tim clem • esenem app hackathon • december 2012 how to build a better product
2. i’m tim clem github.com/tclem
3. i live in san francisco
4. i work at GitHub design · engineering
5. build a better product
6. build a better product
7. build a better company
8. what you love
9. embrace the amateur
12. your skills
13. i’m a designer (and I don’t write code)
14. i’m a coder (can you make this look pretty?)
15. designers code
16. coders design
17. hire to obsolesce
18. vision and focus tell the why
19. picking the right thing to work on is the hardest part
20. your skills what you should focus on github’s vision what you love
21. 1 electronic avoid meatspace
22. but... make face time count
23. repurpose the office
24. 2 available everything has a URL
25. 3 asynchronous do not disturb
26. 4 lock free ask forgiveness, not permission
27. let the robots run your business (chat is operations)
29. culture tools some of the most important products you will build
37. build a better product now you can
38. github.com/tclem twitter.com/timothyclem thanks