flurries of latent creativity
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A founder shares the actual operational artifacts and rituals from building /dev/agents (now Dreamer), a ~18-person AI agent startup. Covers real documents including employee handbook, hiring process, comp principles, and working docs like a live priority tracker. Details the weekly cadence (Monday kickoff, deep work days, Friday hackathon with friction logs), decision-making structure, continuous shipping culture, and radical board meeting transparency. Also honest about what failed: lunch-and-learns never caught on, distributed workstreams created coordination overhead at small scale. The core message is that company building is unglamorous, iterative work done in the cracks — and writing things down forces you to decide what you actually believe.
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The setupThe docsThe working docsHow we made decisionsThe shape of the weekAlways be shippingFriction logsDogfoodingHow we made board meetings an internal transparency momentA few smaller thingsWhat didn’t workWhat this doesn’t captureOne more thingSort: