Andrew & Artur - Apr 7, 2020 - onboarding/teams sync

Summary

00:30 - Why duplication of work is GOOD
01:25 - Hitting first deadline (Apr 16) with redundancy approach (4 tasks)
02:25 - June deadline (pick & choose approach idea), idea of medical experts querying whatever they want (infinite tasks)
04:00 - Integrating vertical & horizontal pieces (ML, NLP, DATA, VISUALIZATION) for team leaders
05:36 - reporting to two directions (vertical/horizontal) versus typical corporate bottom-up
05:58 - Emergent ant colony analogy (flexible types of workers/gatherers that jump roles)
07:54 - "active" members discussion (not focusing on people that don't want to help & can't help)
09:05 - people that want to help but can't (engaging people to create "polymath is fun" culture)
10:11 - Quadrant of people extended with awareness dimension
11:19 - Engaging people that don't know how to help and won't engage (getting them buddy)
12:51 - Active VS Silent members
13:47 - Engaging silent members ONLY when there is a relevant FIT to engage them with
17:48 - Onboarding path ideation, reducing ambiguity via very very specific onboarding slides
20:15 - #onboarding channel doesn't work, does it?
27:30 - Understanding most medical experts won't join slack and we have to accept email/calls
29:05 - Onboarding slides: Slide 1 - doesn't matter what you know, just contribute
30:15 - Onboarding slides: Slide 2 - explaining kaggle competition and what we are doing here
31:08 - Onboarding slides: Slide 3 - Focus on "what literature reports about" versus actually answering what risk factors are. It doesn't matter how we are answering the questions.
33:47 - Building MVP of what we are doing manually (bigram/ngrams) and building something to recreate what researchers do when they read "between the lines"
37:07 - Addressing "hey aren't we doing the same NLP stuff?" and balancing between redundancy and efficiency
38:10 - Where do you fit in? Is it okay to jump places/teams? YES, JUST FLY.
40:40 - Why onboarding is better suited to be AUDIO + VISUALS versus text numb delivery
41:44 - There is this weird aspect of anonymity and no one knowing what people do in their "regular" work life. It's about what and how you contribute.
43:10 - Being specialized vs being natural super organism with emergent collective intelligence