Lessons were learned

I spent nearly five years learning from and leading the design team at Flickr, a role that allowed me to wade into the thick of everything from the highest level product strategy to the finest details of our work. Engineering, design, product, and all of the teams at Flickr spent a lot of time involved in all of the strata between those levels—at some points building things more effectively than others. Over the years some bits of the early culture evolved as the product grew, while the foundation of inclusion, transparency, and merit-based decision-making mostly just…