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The major risks when taking a job: - Joining a company that won’t triple revenue this year - Joining a company that isn’t reinventing an industry - Working o
by paulsutter 3y ago
The major risks when taking a job:
- Joining a company that won’t triple revenue this year
- Joining a company that isn’t reinventing an industry
- Working on pointless CRUD apps that won’t impact the economy
If you end up in a role mike these, the best case scenario is that the company shuts down and you’re freed up to work on something that matters
- suriyaG 3y agoI understand you're trying to simplify every other job out there in a crass way. But, - How many companies out there are tripling revenue? If a majority of the companies are tripling their revenue YoY is it healthy or cancerous to the economy? - How many times does an industry "reinvent" itself. - What use are all other software, without CRUD apps pulling money from the "other" economy into software? famously, computing got its foothold, __because__ lotus 123 was utilitarian. What I mean by that is, ultimate utility for all software products come from software interacting with the real world somewhere down the line. it might not be hip or world breaking. But, it is the most important part.
- sverhagen 3y agoMaybe if we got some real serious inflation, could we triple our revenue? /s
- paulsutter 3y agoLotus123 did affect the economy and was a breakthrough. But that was 1983, closer to WWII than to today. No AI, no internet, no cellphones . We have vastly more powerful systems and dev tools now.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoVastly more powerful systems that are slower. Pretty much the only office tasks that are faster are crunching spreadsheets and sending data to a neighbouring office: everything from booting the machine to keying in data to making phone calls takes longer.