Paras Doshi

“Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.”
― Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

“To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine

“You have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Some professionals say you need to have a praise-to-criticism ratio of 3:1, 5:1, or even 7:1. Others advocate the “feedback sandwich”—opening and closing with praise, sticking some criticism in between. I think venture capitalist Ben Horowitz got it right when he called this approach the “shit sandwich.” Horowitz suggests that such a technique might work with less-experienced people, but I’ve found the average child sees through it just as clearly as an executive does.”
― Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity