144: First Week as VP  🔗 **Source:** [144: First Week as VP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUZOPmdghU) ## Highlights - The system doesn't work if you can't trust the system. - Note: 📚 The system only works if people trust it · - Mid-episode, framing the first manifesto Aaron wrote on day one at Laravel. - Central operating thesis for the whole episode — every other tooling decision (Notion archiving, Linear pruning) is downstream of this claim. · #atom/literature/h1 - I'm not going to delete anything. I'm going to archive stuff. I may go too far. Please feel free to restore it. - Note: 📚 Archive don't delete when inheriting someone else's mess · - Describes the concrete first-week action Aaron took in the marketing Notion workspace. - Reversible-by-default is what earned him team buy-in without a negotiation over every artifact. · #atom/literature/h2 - Never let AI conquer the blank page for you... that is not a problem of writing. That is the whole goal of writing is to figure out what you're trying to say. - Note: 📚 Never let AI conquer the blank page for you · - From Aaron's "Using AI in Your Writing" manifesto, explained live on the show. - Directly reusable as a personal writing principle outside the podcast/work context. · #atom/literature/h3 - This is not... tell me what you did this week and I will judge you... It is an opportunity for you to tell me literally anything that's on your mind. - Note: 📚 The one-on-one belongs to the employee, not the manager · - Core of Aaron's one-on-one manifesto; distinguishes status-reporting from the actual purpose of the meeting. - Explicitly credits Rands in Repose as prior art. · #atom/literature/h4 - A tool earns trust by staying small enough to be true - Note: [[Konik claim-header method]] — because applies-in note-taking practice generally, not just team tooling · - [[Konik claim-header method]] — because applies-in note-taking practice generally, not just team tooling · #atom/zettel/z1 - Compare Notion's block/database model against plain-markdown + AI-agent workflows for reorganization tasks — worth a hands-on test in the vault. #xref - Note: ✏️ Fleeting capture #atom/fleeting/f1 - Look up Ronin Ber / Pages CMS and the "multiplayer markdown-first agent-friendly Notion alternative" mentioned — potential tool worth evaluating. #articleseed - Note: ✏️ Fleeting capture #atom/fleeting/f2 - we killed Notion completely and nothing was lost" is offered as validation of the anti-dashboard thesis without acknowledging team-size or company-stage differences that might make Notion more viable elsewhere. Fix: qualify the claim as team/stage-specific rather than a general indictment of the tool. - Note: 🔍 Fallacy: Hasty Generalization #fallacy/hasty-generalization