The users guide to working for me

A while back, inspired by Roy Rappaport’s manager readme, I created my own. Unfortunately too late for most of my Unity hires, but a fun reflection exercise anyway. I originally had this on our internal wiki, but I recently moved it to my github site as a more permanent location.

A few of you already saw this go public last week in the hackernoon article, but for total transparency, you’re welcome to view my “manager readme” on my github site here.

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