An article in the Harvard Business Review gives some great examples of how product quality requires ruthless honesty

When you have a document to review in a meeting, you should do a really counter-intuitive thing: Don’t send it out beforehand. Instead, share the doc at the beginning of the meeting and have everyone read it, silently, in the meeting.

When talking to almost any ambitious young person in tech, I find myself referring them to Marc Andreessen’s “Guide to Career Planning”. It’s an excellent series that I wish had been written before I graduated from college—if I’d read it then, it might have changed my entire career path.

There are two points in particular that I highlight. Stated here in my own word

My curse in life is to always make the opposite mistake that everyone else makes.

I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I read too much advice, and I take it to heart before I understand the full context it came from. I think that’s what happened the first time I became a manager.

So, you read my career management advice and you’ve decided you want to join a mid-stage, hypergrowth startup. Great. Now—how do you go about it?