Ditto Values
Bring others along: communicate context and seek input as you go, not just at the end.
We’re always working towards shared goals, not individual outcomes. Helping others makes our impact multiplicative, not just additive. Progress compounds over time through shared effort.
Collaboration uncovers more insights than working independently. Our understanding gets sharpened with the input of different perspectives.
Be genuine, and care about others.
Clarity comes from refinement. The most valuable solutions come from iteration over time. Evolve assumptions rather than add complexity.
Think rigorously and from first principles.
Give and receive feedback with humility and curiosity.
Think rigorously and from first principles.
Act with agency and bias for impact. Maintain healthy impatience, and optimism by default.
Own the outcome — even when things don’t go to plan. Beyond identifying challenges, move the team towards solutions.
Relentlessly prioritize what’s important. Make necessary tradeoffs, even (especially) when it’s not easy.
No.5
Ground your conviction.
Talk to users, look at data, and look at real usage.
Adapt quickly to new information.
Deeply understand the problem ahead of working through solutions.
Build with the wider context and real workflows in mind.