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Couldn't agree more. What's your setup right now?

Haha thank you, I appreciate that!

And got it. Congrats on your new management role -- I think a lot about similar questions too...maybe once you learn some best practices, you could write something up and share it with HN :)

This post details famous laissez faire leaders, if you're interested: https://futureofworking.com/5-famous-laissez-faire-leaders/.

By any chance have you worked at startups/in the tech industry? Every single startup I've ever worked at seems to have had a laissez-faire approach to leadership.

This is a great idea. Congrats Adam & team on launching.

that's super interesting! would you be open to chatting more? i'd love to ask you some questions about your workflow and hear your feedback on cadence, seems like you've got some great opinions. my email is melissa@cadencework.com

The product we're building, Cadence, is actually our solution to the daily standup problem.

Let me know if you'd be interested in trying our product out -- seems like you'd give great feedback. My email is melissa@cadencework.com

interesting! why 42 seconds? did you ever end up building this?

yes :)

@rahulpyd, love your post!

yeah that's a really great point -- how standups are most useful when the people in them are working closely together, and especially not useful when the people aren't working closely together (e.g. like you and the salesperson).

Blockers usually take longer than ~15 minutes to discuss & resolve, though, and because those discussions are definitely not relevant for the rest of the group, they're not meant to be had in the standup. Instead, we think blockers should be discussed and resolved as they happen, instead of waiting for the standup the next day to report on them.

and point taken on the "here's why"!

"people starting at the void waiting their turn" -- this is precisely why I think status meetings in general should be avoided!

"Of course, unscrupulous firms like Cambridge Analytica are also able to access some users’ personal data by finding exploits in Facebook’s policies."

The "unscrupulous firms" did not find an exploit in Facebook's policies. Facebook designed those policies so that 3rd-party developers had access to user's data, and they knew it since the very beginning.