David Hoff-Vanoni

Is Carbon Voice a competitor to meeting notetakers? It’s a great question that I’ve been asked a lot lately. Yes, you can use Voice Memos in Carbon Voice to record a meeting. Voice Memos are automatically transcribed, and AI can summarize, extract action items, or even answer open-ended questions. In that sense, there are similarities. But what truly sets Carbon Voice apart is that you DON'T NEED TO HAVE THE CALL OR MEETING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Here’s how to think about it: 🗓️ Meeting notetakers are for people who love meetings but hate taking notes. 🎙️ Carbon Voice is for people who love collaboration but want outcomes fast. No waiting for calls to get scheduled. No slowing down for yet another Zoom. Just moving at the speed of thought. Every conversations automatically documented, summarized, action items, and turned into action items and shared knowledge. Love meetings? Use a notetaker. Value velocity collaboration? Use Carbon Voice.

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I thought this was a good and very reasonable talk by Eleanor Millman on how to prioritize projects for a platform engineering team: https://lnkd.in/gaYtUHRH A few insights I took from it: - Unlike product features which can be more directly tied to revenue, platform engineering work is a couple steps removed. But that doesn't mean it's unimportant! Far from it, platform engineering projects can make everyone at the company more efficient, able to produce higher quality software, etc. - While "urgency" is always going to be a factor, you don't want to just be putting out fires, you want be able to prioritize work which is "high impact" ... even if that impact isn't felt immediately. - Good rule of thumb: prioritize "highest impact for lowest effort". - The talk has some ideas on what factors to choose for impact, and how to blend them. For instance "speed of development" is one factor, "cloud cost optimization" might be another. The weighting of different impact factors can change over time, depending on the needs of the business. I would say that a lot of companies don't have much methodology here but I can really see the value in codifying it. You can always change the methodology or the weighting if it's spitting out results that don't pass the smell test or you really feel it is leading the company astray. Clarity can give the org more freedom to put resources behind projects that would otherwise never be taken on. When things are unclear, prioritization still happens implicitly, but the decisions tend to be a lot more random and fear-based and the org is worse off as a result.

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