This was a response (in part!) to the HN questions posed on Cliff's original blog entry[0] -- hopefully it provided some answers! I would also be curious (and perhaps I should have phrased the title as a question?) how others have done this -- and specifically, what are some of the organizational idiosyncrasies (preferably of the positive variety?) that are outgrowths of a particular culture?
What Oxide have built is a great Engineering firm. Other than not tracking engineering metrics, the implementation details you listed are exactly what I try to establish in all of the engineering teams I join.
I’d love to hear what your sync & discussion meetings look like? I find in a highly cohesive team the discussions are never ending, and very fruitful, posing an interesting challenge of how to conclude them.
The answer is: it varies. Some of them are strictly agenda-driven (and if there is no agenda, the meeting is cancelled), others tend to be around-the-room updates + discussion, others tend to be more free-form. That we record all meetings ends up being (much) more important for us than the specific form...
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837073