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Ben Sehl | Shared meaning, organising teams, and cultivating intention | Ep. #1
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Show Notes:
(2:35) Why Ben says he studied “Semiotics” at university
(6:01) Avoiding broken telephone at work
(6:45) How this comes to life when communicating your brand to the public
(9:13) Hydrogen’s “brand” story and why it matters to Shopify and to developers
(12:40) The pros and cons of headless development
(13:54) Ben’s thoughts on product management frameworks - how to say a few things many different ways
(16:15) How improving your craft allows you to see more of the world
(19:13) Why Ben hates the term swag
(21:45) How particular words bring with them a world of meaning for good and ill
(22:31) Why it all comes back to semiotics in the end
References made in this episode:
- Kotn
- Hydrogen, Shopify’s stack for headless commerce
- Vannevar Bush, the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII which directed all military R&D. Stripe Press recently republished one of his works detailing that experience.
- Simon Sinek, Start With Why, identifying a key purpose for your work.
- Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting, Amazon’s terms for how AWS tries to get rid of all the schleps the average developer normally would have to do to get their app working. [Note: The link is to a newsletter called Fact of the Day it is awesome - strongly recommend checking it out]
- Conceptual Compression, idea expressed by DHH, that for developers (or really anyone building anything) they have to keep a bunch of different ideas in their head at once if these ideas can be compressed it allows for the building of much more complex things by bringing more ideas together.
- Shape Up, by Ryan Singer, one of the best books I’ve ever read on product management
- Everything is Deeply Intertwingled, for a wikipedia article you may never have expected to read check out intertingularity
- The Lean Startup, a canonical text of startups and fast growing tech companies
- The Secret to Our Success, the apex predator surfing a wave of meaning (not yet a personal read but looks excellent)
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