“Today, my guest is Dani Prasana, Dan's chief technology officer at Block, where he oversees a team of over 3,500 people.”
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Dhanji R. Prasanna
Today, my guest is Dani Prasana, Dan's chief technology officer at Block, where he oversees a team of over 3,500 people.
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Strategy3 steps
Code Quality Doesn't Equal Product Success
Solve the real problem for real users; architecture and code quality are nearly orthogonal to success
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Leadership4 steps
Conway's Law Reorg: Go Functional Before You Go AI
Restructure engineering into one functional org before expecting company-wide AI or technical depth
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Leadership4 steps
Drive AI Adoption By Using It Yourself On A Real Problem
Executives using the tool daily on their own real problems beats any top-down mandate or think-piece
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Strategy4 steps
Question the Base Assumption Before Build-or-Buy
Before building OR buying a tool, ask whether the process needs to exist at all
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Innovation4 steps
Ride the AI Value Wave
Treat today's AI capability as the worst it will ever be and expand where it's most efficacious
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Entrepreneurship3 steps
Start Small, Don't Boil the Ocean
Narrow scope to the achievable thing in front of you, then build momentum on top of it
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Resources in their episodes
- Alien: Earth
- Apple Notes
- AppleScript
- Bitkey
- Block
- Cash App
- Cash Card
- Cinch
- Claude
- CoderPad
- Cursor
- Databricks
- Fargo
- GitHub
- Gling
- Google Docs
- Google Drive
- Google Wave
- Goose
- Lenny's Podcast
- Looker
- Lovable
- Ollama
- OpenAI
- Persona
- Salesforce
- Slack
- Slow Horses
- Snowflake
- Square
- Steam Deck OLED
- Tableau
- The Master and Margarita
- Top Gun
- YouTube
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