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I think this is the right take. If you assemble a team around the vision to colonize Mars, you will get a bunch of amazing people that are (for a while) willing
by theptip 4y ago
I think this is the right take. If you assemble a team around the vision to colonize Mars, you will get a bunch of amazing people that are (for a while) willing to put up with crazy work.
Trying to force this on an existing culture will be hard, and doing the “extreme pressure” bit with no vision beyond “more free speech” seems impossible.
Maybe he will get there and in a few months the remainder will have coalesced around the joy of shipping good features fast. But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag.
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- capitalsigma 4y agoAlso, like, it's plausible that working long hours and pushing hard for progress kind of makes sense when you're doing cutting edge stuff, pushing the boundary of what's possible, etc. It's unclear why you would need that attitude to run a mature social media site.
- EMIRELADERO 4y ago> But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag. You know you're on the "bad side" when labor laws are computed as a nuisance.