benjohnson1707

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by benjohnson1707 4y ago
Isn't SoftOps just product thinking from an ops perspective / designing the developer experience?
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by benjohnson1707 5y ago
You might want to look into the works of Elliot Jacques, who came up with apparently rigorous concepts about hierarchy and management since the 70s. Wrote a bunch of books. Interesting stuff, I find.
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by benjohnson1707 5y ago
For now. As mentioned above, it will trickle down. It's pretty embarrassing these days to be German tbh. Especially after what has happened in the last 12 months. Feels a lot like the country as a whole just gave itself up and stopped
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
As always, scale matters. Plastic will be superior to all the alternatives as long as it's a cheap waste by-product of oil refinement. Make alternatives economically competitive to basically free oil refinement by-products, and we&#x27
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Maybe on the long run, this might be X's very legacy: figuring out how to become good at achieving moonshots, by pursuing a lot of them and failing at the most. At least that's what Astro Teller is talking about a lot: Work on the
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Rather a platform, isn't it? Matches founders with VC for a stake of 7% as fee. Platforms thrive if you match supply and demand in a highly relevant way, and once they thrive, they generate network effects. So PG & Jessica were sor
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Surely his 'expertise' expires over time. Before YC, there was no real playbook about how to start a startup. Now there is one (startup school). That's one reason why sama switched gears towards openAI. Starting up is now kin
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
The big difference between him and top notch medical experts seems to be this : piles of cash and cutting edge tech across all disciplines thrown at a problem. It's not common that a research proposal gets granted hundreds of millions
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Show HN: What I think Elon Musk means by ‚reasoning from first principles‘
1 points by benjohnson1707 6y ago|1 comments
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
The problem eventually seems to boil down to this: 'if you don't make stuff, then there is no stuff' (E. Musk) And there are less and less incentives to contribute in making / selling things vs. just making more money ou
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Interesting take. Seems legit from an entropy perspective. Given that most corporations fail eventually no matter what, you might have a point there. Maybe what I meant was the micro-level, not the macro-level evaluation. It might be easier
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Most companies seem to screw it up once they leave the startup stage and enter the growth stage. Incentives schemes aren't designed to 'reward' failure, but zero risk-taking. It seems to be that simple: If you WANT innovation
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
100 $ / kWh battery packs. Or the range of the Semi, deemed 'physically impossible' by a Daimler exec. Let's see how that goes. Musk's whole point is this: much more things are technologically feasible, but most peo
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Seems to be the physics way of looking at the world. Don't trust potentially accidental empirical observations, because they might fail you in a relativistic universe in which there isn't even such a thing as simultaneity (all swa
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
The innovator's dilemma Systemantics A farewell to entropy The nature of technology - what it is and how it evolves On being wrong
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Agreed! Let me clarify: high wages, once you're an engineering manager it's probably comparable. However, you're not nearly as relevant, from a value-sdd perspective. FAANG etc. are software companies. Lidl is an offline reta
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Once you're in a managing position, expectations can be high. Depends on the department however. Everything that is core business related (purchasing, logistics, store management) can be insane. Especially IT is a joke, mostly. But tha
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by benjohnson1707 6y ago
Former Schwarz employee here: The company made SO much money in the past 4 decades with big box / discount retailing, you won't believe it. Salaries are off the charts (it would make senior software engineers in SV look pale). Hub
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by benjohnson1707 8y ago
I wanna take the chance asking this question while having so many physicists present in this sub: is the 'first principle thinking' approach to problem-solving somewhat helpful outside academia? Is it a thing in the first place? S