#35 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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14 More Lessons from 14 Years at Google (Addy Osmani)

tl;dr: A dense collection of actionable leadership frameworks. Standout insights: “trust is a latency optimization for teams” (high-trust teams make decisions in hours, not weeks), the four-word meeting test (approve, choose, unblock, or inform - if you can’t pick one, cancel the meeting), and “when you add a team, you add edges, not just nodes” as a way to explain why doubling headcount doesn’t double output.