Growing Engineers with Weekly Investment Time
summary
Argues that giving engineers eight hours on Fridays as paid, protected weekly investment time turns short-term productivity loss into long-term gains; concrete outputs include a book, internal tools like a bison wrapper around next.js, a Google Sheets profit/loss script, 50–100 annual technical blog posts and regular RFCs and demos. Recommends starting small (five people), guiding focus to overlap company goals, measuring weekly demos, and expects recruiting, retention and occasional home runs like Gmail as business outcomes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 11:07"Investment time" (noun)
- 11:41Investment time...
- 23:46HIGHER VELOCITY AND QUALITY
- 25:47INDIRECT BENEFITS
- 30:082. TINE IS MONEY INVESTMENT TIME IS MORE MONEY
- 32:422.GUIDE THE DIRECTION
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