Good Communication for Engineers 💬 - with Wes Kao

Wes Kao is a founder, marketer, and advisor who writes a newsletter for high-performers in tech at newsletter.weskao.com.
She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:00) Introduction
(03:08) Managing up
(10:13) Bridging the gap between managers and reports
(13:33) The “Bad Things / Good Things” framework
(19:14) Good communication in the remote era
(24:17) The transition to remote work at Maven
(29:28) Sync vs async communication
(33:41) Asynchronous videos
(38:39) Transitioning to a Manager
(46:57) Psychological safety
(53:03) Over-communicating is communicating
(58:59) Wes’ approach to reading
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[@bogdan_veliscu]

Very insightful! Great quality and filled withe knowledge bombs.

[@refactoringclub]

Thank you Bogdan! 🙏