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You would think and yet.. Did none of John Lasseter's friends call him out and tell him to take the T down a notch over the past 20+ years? I've pondered over

by Rapzid 8y ago

You would think and yet.. Did none of John Lasseter's friends call him out and tell him to take the T down a notch over the past 20+ years? I've pondered over this a bit and have come to the conclusion that a lot of people simply don't have close enough friends exposed to their work behavior, or they simply accept it.. Feedback from randos isn't the most likely to instigate big personal change and reflection.

stephengillie 8y ago
I call it the Impact Wrench[∆] theory of Engineer Management. It's widely practiced, sadly to modest success. This turns pressure into torque, so the harder you come down on your engineers, the faster they spin - right until they burn out. [∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_wrench https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_wrench
ci5er 8y ago
I'm a SIGGRAPH rando who implemented a clone of RenderMan in 1992 or so on Sun Workstations. (It wasn't that great of an implementation (Pat Hanrahan helped me with one bit), but because of the Sun's networking capability - it could parallelize as well as anything else at the time). I don't every recall seeing Lasseter doing anything inappropriate. To your point: The company was going through a hard time, and randos would have been the PERFECT feedback to him. The company would have died without their support. But, who could be there to tell him to take it down a notch[0], when he acted like a professional all day long? Net-net: I disagree with what you just said. [0] I generally know who was working on that project at that time, but I don't think it advances this conversation...
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17443370/pixar-walt-disney-animation-john-lasseter-leaving-company-sexual-harassment https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17443370/pixar-walt-disney... It's probably relevant that the majority of Siggraph participants are not John Lasseter's subordinates.

by Rapzid 8y ago

stephengillie 8y ago

I call it the Impact Wrench[∆] theory of Engineer Management. It's widely practiced, sadly to modest success. This turns pressure into torque, so the harder you come down on your engineers, the faster they spin - right until they burn out. [∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_wrench https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_wrench

ci5er 8y ago

I'm a SIGGRAPH rando who implemented a clone of RenderMan in 1992 or so on Sun Workstations. (It wasn't that great of an implementation (Pat Hanrahan helped me with one bit), but because of the Sun's networking capability - it could parallelize as well as anything else at the time). I don't every recall seeing Lasseter doing anything inappropriate. To your point: The company was going through a hard time, and randos would have been the PERFECT feedback to him. The company would have died without their support. But, who could be there to tell him to take it down a notch[0], when he acted like a professional all day long? Net-net: I disagree with what you just said. [0] I generally know who was working on that project at that time, but I don't think it advances this conversation...

erikpukinskis 8y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17443370/pixar-walt-disney-animation-john-lasseter-leaving-company-sexual-harassment https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17443370/pixar-walt-disney... It's probably relevant that the majority of Siggraph participants are not John Lasseter's subordinates.