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I disagree that slime-ball force is inescapable. I think our industry has a huge "boulder" - we often work on useless software that is far too removed from rea

I disagree that slime-ball force is inescapable. I think our industry has a huge "boulder" - we often work on useless software that is far too removed from real world applications, which causes us to lose our passion. When you have 50 engineers maintaining a boring piece of crap software which can be maintained by 5 engineers, you will start noticing the productivity going down. Engineers who used to be very productive will slow down to meet the low expectations. Brainstorming a way to avoid this problem: - working on things we're passionate about with real-world impact - having a bunch of small organizations with small number of employees (maybe Mark should break down facebook into 50 smaller companies) - stop creating redundant jobs; if things are not going well, adding 100 people to a project isn't going to fix the delayed project

adolph 5y ago
> 50 engineers maintaining a boring piece of crap software which can be maintained by 5 engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA "If thats the Bradley, then what's this? [...] How did they get to that from this?" General: "This all well and good Col. Smith. But with this gorilla in production I don't supposed there's going to be anything left in the budget for my scouts. . . . This is a speedy vehicle, why can't it be both? . . . We'll just stick a turret on top with lots of opticals. . . . We aught to get the biggest bang we can up there [in the turret]." Other general: "Add on some firepower!"
adolph 5y ago
> I disagree that slime-ball force is inescapable. Please do go through the deck. At about 152 the author talks about a way through organizational headwinds. Also, the thesis is that an organization's ability to mutate and respond in a balance between collective and cellular methods is similar to a slime mold in a positive way (slide 149).

adolph 5y ago

> 50 engineers maintaining a boring piece of crap software which can be maintained by 5 engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA "If thats the Bradley, then what's this? [...] How did they get to that from this?" General: "This all well and good Col. Smith. But with this gorilla in production I don't supposed there's going to be anything left in the budget for my scouts. . . . This is a speedy vehicle, why can't it be both? . . . We'll just stick a turret on top with lots of opticals. . . . We aught to get the biggest bang we can up there [in the turret]." Other general: "Add on some firepower!"

adolph 5y ago

> I disagree that slime-ball force is inescapable. Please do go through the deck. At about 152 the author talks about a way through organizational headwinds. Also, the thesis is that an organization's ability to mutate and respond in a balance between collective and cellular methods is similar to a slime mold in a positive way (slide 149).