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> It's a natural selection mechanism whereby poorly run companies will fail extremely quickly. Sure, but at the short term cost of engineers' livelihoods. Or
by deathanatos 1y ago
> It's a natural selection mechanism whereby poorly run companies will fail extremely quickly.
Sure, but at the short term cost of engineers' livelihoods.
Or were you thinking C-suite would be held to account for the failure?
- throwanem 1y agoSo you'd rather be a parasite than a free agent?
- gopher_space 1y agoIt's a mutualistic relationship. I get paid to learn and employers get to ingest my nutrient-rich metabolite. Poorly run companies can be an opportunity to direct development towards whatever I'm curious about, and that's usually beneficial to both parties.
- throwanem 1y agoThat would be commensalism at best, phoresy perhaps also, but never mind. You're not exactly wrong, but you may be depending on the financial equivalent of a nutrient waste spill: an alga, assuming this bloom is forever.
- gopher_space 1y agoIt's more about reading the room and being proactive with my decades of experience, but I take and enjoyed your point. I needed to look up phoresy and loved it! Thank you.
- FredPret 1y agoNo-one has to hold the C-suite to account or directly communicate with them in any way. You just need investors and consumers to allocate capital to their competitors. The flow of capital and consumer preference is a decentralized communication method. Price signals, supply and demand, and government regulations are a form of stigmergy.