Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities

More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential acquirers to buy Digg. It was only this morning that I remembered that the post exists when I started trying to title this post on the same topic.

A decade later, I have accumulated more thoughts on the matter. Starting w...