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Adds a note on risks
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cvilas committed Apr 4, 2024
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- Aim to pay well. Rationale:
- Minimises turnover and associated reduction in efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Low pay sets reduced expectations; high pay incentivises higher performance.

> I shall encourage my team to call me out if I am perceived to be breaking the code above
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> "Toilet overflows while the Chef is at hand? He's going right in with the plunger, and fast. No waiting for the toilet guy - he is the toilet guy now. In Bigfoot's army, you fight for the cause, anywhere you are needed" - Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
Fight for the cause. Role and seniority does not matter. We do what we need to do.
Fight for the cause. Role and seniority does not matter.

## Hiring

- Seek intellectual diversity with a mix of experts from different domains
- Colocate development team or make it possible to meet in one physical space often. Rationale: Fully remote peers struggle to culturally align and collaborate
- Keep team small. Rationale: Minimise payroll cost (atleast until revenue), cultural misalignment, cost of communication, decision-making latency
- Keep team small. Rationale: Minimise cultural misalignment, cost of communication, decision-making latency
- Follow interview [guidelines](interview.md)

## Leading

- Follow the [leaders' code](leaders_code.md)
- Encourage team members to [contribute](oss_contrib.md) to open source projects _we use_
- Maintain a physical work environment that inspires great work (I need to flesh this out a bit. Examples are: clean labs, Artifacts/icons of greatness we wish to emulate or exceed. Exact details TBD)
- Maintain a physical work environment that inspires great work (Examples are: clean labs, Artifacts/icons of greatness we wish to emulate or exceed)

## Taking care of team

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- Eliminates a layer of separation between builders and users, and enables lossless direct feedback
- Engineers must 'eat their own dog food'
- Effective diagnosis and problem-fixing in the field requires deep knowledge of how the system is engineered

- Minimise distance (layers of management, reporting line) between field operators and decision makers. Rationale:
- Motivates timely action on issues of high risk to business or personnel safety. Whether it's the O-rings on the Challenger or foam-strike on Columbia, the engineers on the ground knew. The message lost it's urgency on the way up the chain of command.

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