The “Oh S**t” Moment I was sitting in Zus Coffee in Kuala Lumpur —or maybe it was a Third Wave Coffee in Bangalore or a Blue Bottle in San Francisco; the scent of venture capital desperation smells the same everywhere—listening to a pitch. The founder, let’s call him “Prompty Paul,” was sweating through his sustainable Allbirds.
Inspired by: Shreyas Doshi’s Deep Dive on Micromanagement. Listen here before you rage-quit: Understanding Micromanagement: A Deep Dive
There is a moment in Shreyas Doshi’s brilliant analysis where he drops a truth bomb that usually sends “visionary” Product Managers scrambling for their noise-canceling headphones. He essentially argues that micromanagement is not a binary evil; it is a situational necessity.