The Daily Index — Friday, September 1, 2023 · TLDR Index

HEADLINES & TRENDS

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ARE COLLABORATION TOOLS OVERWHELMING YOUR TEAM?

Collaboration technology overload can drown employees in choices, leaving them feeling helpless. The irony is that by constraining those choices, adding frustrating obstacles to adopting yet another collaboration technology, and taking control away from individuals, employees can feel more in control of their work.

hbr.org · 9 min

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VISA AND MASTERCARD AND REPORTEDLY INCREASING CARD FEES

These changes would increase the interchange fees merchants need to pay when a consumer or business uses a card to make a purchase. For low margin businesses, this is a big deal.

pymnts.com · 2 min

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SAAS IPO WINDOW INFLECTION

In honor of Klaviyo’s recent IPO filing, the first SaaS IPO in almost two years, here’s an interesting breakdown on the shared characteristics of companies that previously opened dormant SaaS IPO windows.

nextbigteng.substack.com · 5 min

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MEASURING DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY? A RESPONSE TO MCKINSEY

This is the first of a two part series from Gergely that explores a response to McKinsey’s recent “solution” to measuring developer productivity at your organization. We’ll link part two in our next addition.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 18 min

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THE THREE PHASES OF THE CEO

As a CEO, you quickly evolve from building a product and managing a company to managing people. This shift from building a product to focusing on sales and then hiring and scaling your team requires you to evolve how you govern your time and inputs.

markmacleod.me · 2 min

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REMINDER, YOU DON’T WORK FOR YOUR CALENDAR

Your calendar shouldn’t be a diary of someone else’s agenda. Audit your calendar on a regular basis and map out what gives you energy and what takes it away. Constantly prune meetings that do the latter.

breakingpoint.substack.com · 2 min

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NARANJO

This discussion dives into the importance of working at a company where everyone is equally passionate about doing great work and where the value of the People function is recognized. Culture is less about pizza parties and more about being bought into collective success.

hunterwalk.com · 9 min

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THE INTERNET DEMANDS GREATNESS

The internet is loud and chaotic. An individual’s attention is being pulled in more directions than any generation before us. To stand out and win that attention, you increasingly need to be exceptional.

every.to · 9 min

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MCKINSEY DIGITAL’S GUIDE TO DIGITAL EXCELLENCE

What separates top-performing teams from those that are just starting out? Well, McKinsey breaks it down into a four-step process that sees a would-be rockstar set the foundations of their culture, organize teams around user needs, invest in appropriate technology to support their operations, and empower teams to be autonomous.

mckinsey.com · 13 min

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BELIEF EXISTS IN THE ABSENCE OF PROOF

As founders, belief is an internal compass we use to guide us to new realities that don’t yet exist.

seths.blog · 2 min

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WE ANALYZED MILLIONS OF CHATGPT USER SESSIONS

This article discusses data around OpenAI and ChatGPT traffic. OpenAI traffic has declined around 29% since May. Around 29% of ChatGPT prompts are related to programming, while education accounted for around 10% of all use cases. Other use cases include writing assistance, content creation, and creative ideation. Charts showing data on how people use ChatGPT are available.

sparktoro.com · 11 min