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Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.

John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.

Context:

John ran an agency for a couple years with a few developers + Designers, now runs a team of 12(ish) developers + Designers

Few Topics

IC vs Manager

Code on the side only to show things
Not coding for production
Code outside of your core code

Right sizing a team

Systems Thinking "Stocks + Flows" (Slack)

Mythical Man Month

False premise: More heads = faster results

Remove bottlenecks

Break up the work
- Kitchen Metaphor
Context + Documentation

Safety + Empowerment

Permission + Trust
Access

Leading by example

"Law of the lid"

Don't scar on the first cut

Forbidden Conversations / honesty

Picks

John: https://handmirror.app/
JP: https://freezingcam.com/

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