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Cool Gray City of Love

By Gary Kamiya

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“cool gray City of Love by Gary Kamia”

Speaker: Vijay Iyengar▶ Watch at ~42:30approx.

Set a time budget, then ask what you'd do with more and less — the bracket reveals the efficient frontier.

When you're bleeding to competitors, throw out the plan and build the churn list, sorted by ARR.

Before rejecting an idea, sincerely attempt to make it work — then say no with receipts.

Fund new bets from the core's profits — never by moving engineers off the core.

Score reach and impact first; sit with the innovative bets before letting C and E kill them.

Track events from your servers, not your clients — logs with a user ID are already events.

Leaders ideate inside the teams' jam sessions instead of reviewing their output from outside.

Give design a protected block to define the product's building blocks — or it will smuggle scope in at the end.

Pipe raw customer feedback into Slack with no gatekeeper — and let engineers email the customer directly.

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