I remember when I first read this blog post, https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-system/ https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-

I remember when I first read this blog post, https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-system/ https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys.... Besides now feeling a bit old realizing this was 5 years ago, I remember thinking what an amazing engineering culture they must have at Figma (besides having a bunch of brilliant people). I mean, they talked about essentially trying out a tech path for a month and then deciding that path was a dead end - I find this so rare in startups where there is a lot of pressure to continually demonstrate "progress". As a corollary, though, I think those kinds of cultures are only possible if your team is composed of primarily brilliant people, because these brilliant people can move faster than most competitors even if they do wander down an unproductive path for a while, and there is total trust that the folks on your team are capable and self-motivated.