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Our learnings on team knowledge sharing, product building, and start-ups.

Crushing Your Fear Of Failure: Using Stoicism To Thrive At Your Startup
The ancient philosophy of stoicism, originally used by ancient leaders to help endure the hardships and anxieties of daily life, is experiencing a resurgence among today's tech leaders and startup employees.
Ben Bashaw
4/24/2019
CEO Writing
We Analyzed How 38 CEOs Send Emails—Here's What We Found
With the decentralization of the startup economy and the increasing prevalence of remote and distributed teams, clear, asynchronous communication has never been a more important skill for executives to master.
Ben Bashaw
3/19/2019
Engineering
Finer Control over ExMachina Factories
The latest release of ExMachina allows you to read passed attributes from an optional argument in your factories, giving you much finer control over how to define them.
Sheharyar Naseer
3/3/2019
CEO Writing
How Andy Grove's Writing Formed The Basis For Modern-Day Startup Culture
When Andy Grove, former CEO and cofounder of Intel, passed away in 2016, the outpouring of tributes to his memory from the tech world's leading CEOs, such as Tim Cook and Bill Gates, showed just how appreciated his teachings were. The further you look into the leadership tactics of some of the most successful tech companies of our generation, the more apparent Grove's influence becomes.
Ben Bashaw
2/27/2019
CEO Writing
Why Mark Zuckerberg's Writing Style Erodes Our Trust in Facebook
Earlier this week, in a post he wrote on Facebook to celebrate his company's 15th birthday, Mark Zuckerberg raised the ire of Facebook's critics yet again. Authors, journalists, researchers, and academics from across the internet pilloried Zuckerberg for his tone, his use of jargon, and his attempts to deflect…
Ben Bashaw
2/12/2019
CEO Writing
How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
There's probably no technology company that values the written word and produces written output quite as much as Amazon. At Amazon, meetings to present ideas start not with PowerPoint slides but with narratively structured memos.
Ben Bashaw
2/5/2019
CEO Writing
3 Ways Elon Musk's Bad Writing Habits Hurt Tesla's Performance
With SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has built two of the most valuable and disruptive companies of the last few decades. To some, he's the quintessential Silicon Valley founder: inspirational, courageous, forward-thinking.
Sam Holis
1/15/2019
Product
Why Obsessive Documentation is Key to Being a Great Product Manager
To be a great PM, you need technical prowess, deep customer context, and enough creativity and discipline to bring a new product idea to life. But the highest-leverage skill that a product manager can develop has nothing to do with programming or design—it's the ability to write well.
Sam Holis
10/12/2018
Announcement
A worthy home for your team’s knowledge
We are reinventing how teams share and retain knowledge with Slab and have raised a $2.2M seed round. Check us out at slab.com for early access.
Jason Chen
2/7/2018

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