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By "big" I mean problems that require many distinct, intelligent decisions. These problems always has and always will require very large groups of people worki
by alf 15y ago
By "big" I mean problems that require many distinct, intelligent decisions. These problems always has and always will require very large groups of people working cooperatively. For example, the Apollo program at it's peak employed 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 contractors [1]. This is really a point of semantics though, not really worth debating.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
- iamwil 15y agoWe only need that many people because our tools weren't sufficiently advanced at the time. We had to invent a lot of things on the fly there.
- Uchikoma 15y agoSo today this could be done by 2 founders without bosses? (the topic of this thread)
- mattmanser 15y agoEventually, yes. For example right now a duo are preparing to do a manned space flight, which would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/personel.php http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/personel.php
- Uchikoma 15y agoMe: This works with 2 people. You: Yes, look, here they do it with 22 people. 2 of them are described as "Lead" which is contrary to the point you want to make: "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss." Additionally the problem of putting someone in space is different from putting someone on the moon and back again.
- iamwil 15y agolike matt said, I think eventually yes. It seems silly to us now, just as it seemed silly back a couple hundred years ago that you can run a farm with just a handful of people and even produce more food.
- ippisl 15y agoBut when you have many tools and building blocks , the problem doesn't require many intelligent decisions anymore , and isn't "big" by the definition given by the parent thread.