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“Look, this will be a two week push. Anyone who can commit to it, please do so, including putting extra hours. And in return, you can take time off afterwards or, you know, like you create incentives and you just treat them as adults.”

The Pragmatic Engineer · The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson

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Ran a two-week intensive push, offering extra hours with a promise of time-off later as an incentive

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