How to zoom out (and when to stop)
summary
Experience moving from IC to manager at ~20-person startups shapes concrete advice: add new responsibilities to a triage list, delegate items that don’t affect team outcomes, and make quick decisions when options are close. An unusual serverless auth function is a named failure mode—lack of handoff causes incidents—so document and transfer tribal knowledge early. Increase boundary interfaces with demos and regular peer catchups, use silence in meetings as a diagnostic, and signpost delegation so teams reveal when to zoom back in.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Roles are gradients
- 3:54Practical steps
- 7:24Avoiding blind spots
- 9:50Building peer networks
- 10:32Signals to zoom back in
- 13:20Summary
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