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I share Carmack's sentiment on managing people here. Naval Ravikant calls managing people the most common and recognized form of leverage. And he's absolutely
by mattgreenrocks 3y ago
I share Carmack's sentiment on managing people here.
Naval Ravikant calls managing people the most common and recognized form of leverage. And he's absolutely right. But the scaling properties of people management are terrible once you get accustomed to how you can scale with code. People management necessitates adding new layers in order to keep the system from falling over, overall efficiency stops scaling as people are added, and communication becomes very difficult.
- lupire 3y agoNone of what you said seems different from how scaling software and data processing. Only the constant factors are different. Communication overhead is a major concern in supercomputing / distributed commuting. 10x-100x scaleups require rearchitecture. Google Talk is not as cannot be same code as "UNIX talk"