Editor’s note: Every company has a way of working. I wrote this document several years ago when we were still figuring out our way of working – “how we do things here” – and were spending a lot of time aligning on decisions of all sizes. We talked about it a lot at the time, but we rarely have to reference it now – as Alfred North Whitehead said, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."The most difficult part of hiring...