“Criticize the Model, Praise the Person”: How Teamwork and Trust Helped Me Kill My Moonshot

And why I was celebrated for it

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On my first day at X, the moonshot factory, I listened to our Chief Operating Officer, describe why Xers (people who work at X) need to be “passionately dispassionate” while pursuing ideas that might become moonshots. He urged us to be passionate enough to…