{"id":483,"date":"2011-11-17T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=483"},"modified":"2011-11-17T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:47:00","slug":"its-not-okay-to-say-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/its-not-okay-to-say-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not okay to say nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out today how important it is to be vocal when you really believe in something.<\/p>\n<p>First some background:<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the reason that TokBox is successful right now is because we&#8217;ve built the right culture. Hiring in the Valley is a bitch, and if you aren&#8217;t careful, then you&#8217;ll hire anyone out of desperation. We&#8217;ve made that mistake before, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll do it again, but lately we haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>What is the crux of our culture? I think TokBox as a company is focused around building an excellent product <em>together<\/em>. There is team buy-in to our vision, strategy and execution. Buy-in doesn&#8217;t mean consensus mind you, but at the very least we force ourselves to come into a room and hear each other out before anything is committed to paper.<\/p>\n<p>At some points that community approach is challenged. People have a bad day or they fundamentally disagree with how something is being presented. It&#8217;s these days that challenge the culture hardest, and we recently had one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>It happened; we acted on it quickly, and I think that at the very least the problem has been surfaced. There is a clear chink in the armor, and that&#8217;s not going anywhere. At the end of the day, we&#8217;re all people, and the dynamics of that come into play. But in immediately responding to the situation, and vocally championing what&#8217;s right instead of what&#8217;s easy I think we took a big, big, big step in showing that our culture is sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Good job us, and now on to the next challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out today how important it is to be vocal when you really believe in something. First some background: I believe that the reason that TokBox is successful right now is because we&#8217;ve built the right culture. Hiring in the Valley is a bitch, and if you aren&#8217;t careful, then you&#8217;ll hire anyone out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becomingapm","category-builder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAIx-7N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}