Gabriel Valdivia

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A large part of senior IC work is figuring out how to package your thinking so other people can carry it forward without you.

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Standup comedians obsess over wording, pacing, and audience reaction. Filmmakers think about how information is revealed. Comic books compress complicated narratives into sequences of images.

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study fields outside design

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The most influential ICs I've worked with are unusually good storytellers. They find simple ways to describe complicated ideas. They name their projects, create metaphors, and turn a fuzzy argument into a phrase someone remembers three meetings later.

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Give people something they can repeat

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ple something

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