Weekly antimanager satire · Product · Engineering · Management · People · Startups
Every Tuesday I talk to Manolo about product, engineering, management, people and startups. At 7 A.M.
Management problem
How to decide with data without turning spreadsheets, dashboards, or targets into substitutes for reality.
Guiding question: How do you use metrics without becoming subordinate to a flawed representation of the business?
98% utilization, record deliveries, and a company doing worse. Why squeezing every hour out of a team kills the ideas that could save it.
maximizar ocupación elimina la capacidad de aprender y adaptarse.
Manolo publicly corrects a proposal that was about to pass and burns his political capital. On picking battles and the price of proving you know best.
ahorrar en lo pequeño puede destruir valor mucho mayor.
Manolo discovers vibe coding and generates 12,000 lines nobody understands. The Leidenfrost effect applied to AI: more heat, less evaporation.
la presión extrema puede aislar al sistema del problema real.
Manolo turns OKRs into a task list with a fancy title. Jose walks him through outputs versus outcomes, and the difference between order and control.
usar OKR para registrar tareas sustituye resultados por actividad.
Manolo wants coupons and fake urgency. Jose shows him Maxi Portes, who sells ham by explaining ham: trust converts better than panic.
el valor relacional puede no aparecer en la hoja de cálculo.
Manolo believes big companies run on certainty and everything flows. Jose explains they just have more layers to hide the uncertainty.
dudar con método mejora decisiones mientras dudar de todo las paraliza.