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"Do things that don't scale." -- Paul Graham. It's funny how well this principle translates to things other than triaging startup ideas.
by fooker 7y ago
"Do things that don't scale." -- Paul Graham.
It's funny how well this principle translates to things other than triaging startup ideas.
- chrisseaton 7y agoBut you're harming people. People have lost their livelihood based on Google's 'jokes'. And you're annoying many of the people who you aren't harming. If you learn that what you're doing is harmful or annoying to people just don't do it.
- donatj 7y agoThe person who lost their job for accidentally including a minions gif in an emails job was basically over anyway.
- chrisseaton 7y agoOh ok, fine to push them over the edge then?
- donatj 7y agoSaved them a day or two maybe? They were looking for a reason to fire them.
- __s 7y ago"Do things that don't scale" is about differentiating yourself by throwing people hours at a problem. This is the opposite of what Google does. I'd rather they work on doing support that doesn't scale, as opposed to figuring out how to do a joke that doesn't usually scale Also that quote was about leveraging being able to do things that don't scale when you only have 100 customers, because that's something large companies like Google can't compete with you on, because by definition they can't do things that don't scale unless it's some skunkswork project