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Cleaned out the last of my desk today. There are reasons I’m moving, but it’s still always sort of bittersweet when you shred the last drawer of notes and diagrams. I did find this list of advice I gave to my team a long time ago (ok, not that long - I only got into this last job at the very end of 2024). Maybe they’re useful to you, too. • Read all the things • Make connections • Accept gut level hypotheses -but- • Disprove your own ideas - aggressively • Share the ideas you cannot disprove • Warn leaders early; use appropriate caveats • Timestamps will save you; send emails • Log actions taken after hours • Be wary of empty logs left by people or systems • Confirm the problems you think are someone else's responsibility to solve truly belong to those other people, and that they know about them, too