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Good Internal Documents Are Great Reading

I've found internal documents written by smart people and smart companies to be infinitely better than stuff put out there for PR which tends to be weighted-down, caveated, and also more basic than the hard-hitting internal stuff.

Two of my favorites --

1. Ray Dalio's "Principles" -- from Ray Dalio, the brilliant manager of the world's largest hedge fund. His "Principles" is one of the most important and valuable reads I've found:

http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf

2. Valve's "New Employee Handbook" -- a great document on culture that provides a look at how a sharp non-traditional company does it. Quite good:

GiveGetWin System-Building Post v0.1

One of the chief requests I got in the "Why do you read this blog?" thread was for more real-life case studies and examples. I was thinking it'd be good to open up more information about how we build and run things.

I also want to give the brilliant people I work and collaborate with a time to show your thinking, and to riff on team-building somewhat. So, expect to see more case studies, more processes, and more behind-the-scenes going forwards.

Recently we welcomed Zach Obront to the GiveGetWin team, and one of the first orders of business is getting more systematic. This is a short announcement to the team, and we're posting it publicly as well. In here, you can briefly see his line of thinking and the questions we have to answer to get systematic.

You'll note that a lot of a lot of this is commonsensical thinking-through of possibilities, and seeing where constraints are to break through them. That's a lot of building systems -- identifying what the constraints are, where the problems arise, and then solving those.

Here's Zach Obront --

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