Addy Osmani·14w14 More Lessons from 14 years at Google
Fourteen lessons on team dynamics and organizational effectiveness from 14 years at Google. Covers prioritization ruthlessness, decision clarity in meetings, converting intentions to concrete actions, treating reliability as a product feature, defining clear team interfaces, escalating with proposals, avoiding hero culture, building observability into features, keeping PRs small, managing coordination costs as teams grow, planning for migration complexity, leveraging AI for drafts while applying human taste, and building trust as a latency optimization. Emphasizes that impact comes from systems that enable normal people to do extraordinary work on normal days.
