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Yeah. I feel like this a lot. I don't know if it's a bias of some kind but it feels right. I suppose it's selection bias. I don't know how to market, but appar

Yeah. I feel like this a lot. I don't know if it's a bias of some kind but it feels right. I suppose it's selection bias. I don't know how to market, but apparently the marketing people do because we have customers. I do know about my corner of the system though, and when my advice is ignored it usually turns out I was right in the end.

ryandrake 4y ago
At MegaCompanies, being right, having evidence, and trying to persuade just isn’t enough, as John Fucking Carmack figured out. It’s more like High School. You need to be in the right clique or have the ear of the right Very Important Person. When you send that E-mail and say “We should do X because Y and Z…” people stop reading at “because” and just go look in the company directory for your name. If you’re high enough on the totem pole, they’ll respond to you. If you’re even higher, they might suggest a meeting to discuss X! And if you are really high up, they will stop what they are doing and do X right away. What’s surprising to me is how someone like Carmack didn’t have enough totem-pole clout just from who he is! He’s practically a celebrity, and I’d have thought that would go a long way in the High School Drama Club but I guess not.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
  Modern capitalism has ushered in a new age of modern fuedalism, at first just inside big companies, but it’s spreading to society in general now.
  - mach1ne 4y ago
    The distance between now & the world of Cyberpunk is becoming visibly smaller every day.
    - turtleyacht 4y ago
      In what ways? Will we have wearables, bespoke cyberdecks, and side hustles? :)
- Mockapapella 4y ago
  “High school never ends” hits differently when it’s a little closer to home
- varjag 4y ago
  > What’s surprising to me is how someone like Carmack didn’t have enough totem-pole clout just from who he is! He is a game developer. Some people now at Facebook have breakthroughs in Computer Science on their resumes.

ryandrake 4y ago

At MegaCompanies, being right, having evidence, and trying to persuade just isn’t enough, as John Fucking Carmack figured out. It’s more like High School. You need to be in the right clique or have the ear of the right Very Important Person. When you send that E-mail and say “We should do X because Y and Z…” people stop reading at “because” and just go look in the company directory for your name. If you’re high enough on the totem pole, they’ll respond to you. If you’re even higher, they might suggest a meeting to discuss X! And if you are really high up, they will stop what they are doing and do X right away. What’s surprising to me is how someone like Carmack didn’t have enough totem-pole clout just from who he is! He’s practically a celebrity, and I’d have thought that would go a long way in the High School Drama Club but I guess not.

TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
Modern capitalism has ushered in a new age of modern fuedalism, at first just inside big companies, but it’s spreading to society in general now.
- mach1ne 4y ago
  The distance between now & the world of Cyberpunk is becoming visibly smaller every day.
  - turtleyacht 4y ago
    In what ways? Will we have wearables, bespoke cyberdecks, and side hustles? :)
Mockapapella 4y ago
“High school never ends” hits differently when it’s a little closer to home
varjag 4y ago
> What’s surprising to me is how someone like Carmack didn’t have enough totem-pole clout just from who he is! He is a game developer. Some people now at Facebook have breakthroughs in Computer Science on their resumes.