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> draw the owl "The rest of the fucking owl" is a meme about laughably incomplete instructions, in case you didn't catch the reference: https://knowyourmeme.co
by john-radio 7y ago
> draw the owl
"The rest of the fucking owl" is a meme about laughably incomplete instructions, in case you didn't catch the reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1272765-how-to-draw-an-owl https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1272765-how-to-draw-an-owl
"Draw the owl" is a pretty ironic rule, because it's horribly incomplete itself unless you're familiar with that particular meme.
I wonder how many people work at Twilio who have heard "draw the owl," and know it has something to do with being consistent, but has no idea what it means or why it seems to be clear to everyone else?
- lincolnq 7y agoUsually with company values you don't just give them to somebody once and never talk about them again -- you repeat them over and over again in company meetings, with lots of examples and associated lore. Most values can't really be properly interpreted without context. Fred has taken these values out of context for the purpose of the blog post. (Not disagreeing with you that this value absolutely needs more context than most, though!)
- kelnos 7y agoI've been at Twilio for 8 years; explaining what "draw the owl" means and where it comes from has been part of onboarding at least that long.
- blahblahthrow 7y agoI work at a place that also has "draw the owl" as a kind of corporate culture joke? It's funny at small scale when everything is uncertain, but when you grow to a thousand employees it kind of turns into an embarrassment. We have kind of moved away from it officially AFAICT so now it's more of an inside joke that old-timers use to assert dominance