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So a successful company acts closer to a top-notch jazz band that - improvises its way through a continuous set - never stops - swaps out players intermitten

So a successful company acts closer to a top-notch jazz band that - improvises its way through a continuous set - never stops - swaps out players intermittently - improvises off of each other based upon events rather than being an orchestra operating off of some refined composition handed down from Apollo on mount Olympus.

daseiner1 6y ago
idk if it was intended, but this is a gorgeous pun – AWS uses a self-rolled deployment engine called Apollo.
- smitty1e 6y ago
  No, Apollo was the Greek god of music.
  - daseiner1 6y ago
    Yes, I know who Apollo is... that’s what makes it a pun
    - smitty1e 6y ago
      I have some Associate certs, but I wasn't privy to the Apollo tool.
kqr 6y ago
The fact that we are not as much in control as we think can be both liberating and frustrating. When I asked my boss (who is co-founder of the company, so has all the historic context) how the company culture got to be in the good place it is, his immediate, and most confident, answer was "luck."
- smitty1e 6y ago
  As an editorial preference, I favor Destiny over "luck". “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck".” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/697618-throughout-history-poverty-is-the-normal-condition-of-man-advances https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/697618-throughout-history-p...
CamperBob2 6y ago
More likely, we have highly successful organizations of both types, just as we have highly successful bands of both types.
- smitty1e 6y ago
  TFA was making the point that the latter case did not apply to Amazon, despite the human craving to make it so.

daseiner1 6y ago

idk if it was intended, but this is a gorgeous pun – AWS uses a self-rolled deployment engine called Apollo.

smitty1e 6y ago
No, Apollo was the Greek god of music.
- daseiner1 6y ago
  Yes, I know who Apollo is... that’s what makes it a pun
  - smitty1e 6y ago
    I have some Associate certs, but I wasn't privy to the Apollo tool.

kqr 6y ago

The fact that we are not as much in control as we think can be both liberating and frustrating. When I asked my boss (who is co-founder of the company, so has all the historic context) how the company culture got to be in the good place it is, his immediate, and most confident, answer was "luck."

smitty1e 6y ago
As an editorial preference, I favor Destiny over "luck". “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck".” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/697618-throughout-history-poverty-is-the-normal-condition-of-man-advances https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/697618-throughout-history-p...

CamperBob2 6y ago

More likely, we have highly successful organizations of both types, just as we have highly successful bands of both types.

smitty1e 6y ago
TFA was making the point that the latter case did not apply to Amazon, despite the human craving to make it so.