Stop Doing Work That Doesn't Matter | Fareed Mosavat (Ex-Slack)
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[0:00] so I think of it as like there's the
[0:01] work and there's the work behind the
[0:03] work right is the way I just think about
[0:06] this and like the work is talking to
[0:09] customers working with engineers and
[0:11] designers to build things analyzing data
[0:14] identifying opportunities figuring out
[0:16] what you needs to change and iterating
[0:18] like that's really the core Loop right
[0:20] it's then there's all the work behind
[0:21] the work every single intermediary
[0:23] output product briefs product specs
[0:25] technical specs figma docs exec decks
[0:28] road map reviews strategy reviews data
[0:31] reviews all those sorts of things and
[0:33] over time because of the cost of cross
[0:35] coordination across a bunch of different
[0:37] teams you end up having to spend as much
[0:39] time socializing the work the process of
[0:42] like a product review goes from we're
[0:46] here to think hard about this problem so
[0:48] that we get better ideas and build
[0:50] better stuff to I need to convince this
[0:53] executive that I'm smart and that I know
[0:55] what I'm doing and just get a green
[0:57] check mark on it right I'm I'm trying to
[1:00] get an A+ and move on and I think as
[1:02] soon as you see processes that start to
[1:04] feel like we did a meeting before the
[1:06] meeting to socialize the thing so that
[1:08] the meeting was just a checkpoint that's
[1:10] no longer part of the creative process
[1:12] that's part of like the approval process
[1:14] and so I find that I as a leader it's my
[1:19] job to see those things CU they tend to
[1:21] happen organically right identify them
[1:24] and rip them out as much as we can today
[1:27] my guest is fared mosat a growth veteran
[1:30] who has worked at