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Today's guest is Antonia Scheidel!
Antonia is Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where she made the whole career progression, starting as a simple intern 12 years ago.
Antonia is an expert at designing good, automated processes for your team.
We discussed:
How to create good automation to avoid people doing glue work
How not to become a bottleneck as a manager
How to make the team own the process and repair it when needed.
🥇 Interview Summary
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Here is the agenda for today:
👋 Antonia's Journey at Duolingo
📊 The Project Management Problem
🔧 Getting Out of the Manual Work Trap
⚡ Building Automated Processes That Work
🔔 Making Notifications Effective
Let's dive in 👇
