Fried says their method is to share problems. “We just say to a team, ‘Here’s the idea, here’s roughly where we want to go or want to build. It’s your responsibility to take that and figure that out.’ There’s a lot of agency here, a lot of autonomy. They decide how they want to attack the problem. We might go back and forth, but the project is theirs. We could detail something out and figure out there need to be forty-two steps and then . . . giv[e] someone forty-two tasks . . . but then you’re telling them, ‘Don’t use your brain, just do what we tell you.’” They provide a backstory to explain
...more
