Good Communication for Engineers 💬 — with Wes Kao

Wes Kao is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes an amazing newsletter for high-performers in tech. She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin. Here is what we talked about: (00:00) Introduction (03:08) Managing up (10:13) Bridging the gap between managers and reports (13:33) The “Bad Things / Good Things” framework (19:14) Good communication in the remote era (24:17) The transition to remote work at Maven (29:28) Sync vs async communication (33:41) Asynchronous videos (38:39) Transitioning to a Manager (46:57) Psychological safety (53:03) Over-communicating is communicating (58:59) Wes’ approach to reading — You can also find this at: 📬 ⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠ 📺 ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠ 📱 ⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠