# mark porter (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mark porter. Page: Feed: --- ## [Amazon Leadership Principles — Text Copy, July 2026](https://marklovestech.com/deeper-thoughts/leadership-principles/amazon-leadership-principles-text-copy-july-2026/) _2026-07-11 · Mark Loves Tech_ Verbatim text of Amazon’s sixteen Leadership Principles, archived from amazon.jobs in July 2026. ## [dbt Labs: Our Values (Archived)](https://marklovestech.com/dbt-labs-values/) _2026-07-11 · Mark Loves Tech_ An archived copy of the dbt Labs company values and leadership principles, preserved from getdbt.com before the company's closure. ## [Grab: Our Values (Archived)](https://marklovestech.com/grab-values/) _2026-07-11 · Mark Loves Tech_ An archived copy of Grab's company values — the 4Hs — preserved from grab.careers. ## [MongoDB: Company Values (Archived)](https://marklovestech.com/mongodb-values/) _2026-07-11 · Mark Loves Tech_ An archived copy of MongoDB's company values, preserved from mongodb.com. ## [RAISE 2026, Paris: From Research to Reality: Why Open Source Is the Engine of AI](https://marklovestech.com/my-voice/raise-2026-paris-open-source-engine-of-ai/) _2026-07-08 · Mark Loves Tech_ Mark moderates a panel at RAISE Summit 2026 on why open source is the engine of AI innovation, with Ion Stoica, Thomas Wolf, Dillon Rolnick, Eiso Kant, and Robin Rombach. ## [CTO Confessions — What I Got Right (and Wrong) About Team Building (Techsylvania 2025)](https://marklovestech.com/leadership/techsylvania-2025-team-building/) _2025-06-25 · Mark Loves Tech_ In this talk, I focused on what works for teams and what doesn’t. How to know what a good team is, whether you’re on one, and if you’re not, whether you should try to be part of the solution - or exit the team gracefully. ## [Making Good Decisions via Memos and Meetings](https://marklovestech.com/deeper-thoughts/making-good-decisions-via-memos/) _2025-03-15 · Mark Loves Tech_ A company succeeds or fails based on the speed and quality of the decisions it makes. Slides hide weaknesses in reasoning; documents expose them. My guidelines for writing good memos, the key questions for each meeting type, and how to run a meeting that ends in a decision instead of a follow-up. Licensed Apache 2.0. ## [How to Run an Incubation Process](https://marklovestech.com/deeper-thoughts/how-to-run-an-incubation-process/) _2025-03-01 · Mark Loves Tech_ A pro forma process for incubating new ideas alongside the regular flow of a product engineering org. Four phases — research, ideation, incubation, productization — with three decision gates between them. Drawn from variations I’ve used at NASA, Oracle, NewsCorp, Grab, MongoDB, and dbt Labs. ## [The 5Ds: Discover, Debate, Decide, Declare, Deliver](https://marklovestech.com/deeper-thoughts/5ds-decision-framework/) _2025-01-01 · Mark Loves Tech_ A working framework for thinking about every decision in five distinct phases. Originally a scratchpad I wrote as CTO at dbt Labs while thinking out loud about how to make and communicate decisions better — sharing here as a work in progress. ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cjhDRibz6luR) _2024-12-31 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [The Motive of Leadership](https://marklovestech.com/deeper-thoughts/motive-of-leadership/) _2024-11-17 · Mark Loves Tech_ On Patrick Lencioni’s The Motive : rewards-based leadership vs. value/team-based leadership, and why senior leaders never change because they’re told to — only because they change what they value. Originally a note to my engineering managers.