How «the most important document to ever come out of Silicon Valley» defined Netflix’ work culture where it didn’t matter how hard you work, but only how much you accomplish (which, as it turns out, makes people work very hard).

From Weekly Filet #248, in September 2017.

Hard Work Is Irrelevant

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The Uses of Difficulty

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Nodding heads, not turning heads

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Exploit or explore?

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How to do great work

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