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by cbracy 13y ago
I added an edit here, pointing out that GitHub wasn't actually employing holacracy. That was my (pre-breakfast) sloppiness. My main point still stands, though. And Tom Preston-Werner describes his "management" structure here
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by cbracy 14y ago
To extend the analogy, expanding to the wild west eventually required a revolutionary war with Great Britian. That's a war Silicon Valley is woefully unprepared for.
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by cbracy 14y ago
Just because 30 million people are using it doesn't mean it "impacted" them.
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by cbracy 14y ago
CrowdTilt
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by cbracy 14y ago
No, I wasn't. I wanted him to win--and am so glad he did--and criticizing him on FISA would have been counterproductive at best. I don't agree with every one of the hundreds of positions he's taken, but I'm not a one-issue voter. Despite hi
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by cbracy 14y ago
Sorry. You're right. But I don't think I'm throwing up my hands. I think there are many solutions and certainly not ones that are easily laid out as a final paragraph in a post like this. I'll definitely follow up when I think I have ideas
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by cbracy 14y ago
Completely 100% agree with you, and have been mildly obsessed with Uber and other ride-sharing apps since I moved here because of their conflict with city government and the implications they have for public transportation. One of the most
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by cbracy 14y ago
Yeah, as you can probably tell I struggled a lot with the term "Silicon Valley." I meant to describe more the culture than the geographic place, but since I'm based in SF it all kind of got conflated. Good point, I'm going to think a bit mo
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by cbracy 14y ago
I'm a "she" by the way :)
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by cbracy 14y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. I think it's exactly that decentralized, networked approach to problem-solving that holds the potential for technologists to fix big problems. The issue is that in SV most are not focusing on those problems.
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by cbracy 14y ago
It's my responsibility too. I'm working on it. Just coming off the Obama campaign and rolling into a new gig in the coming weeks. Not ready to announce it yet, but I'm proud of it and think it's part of the solution.
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by cbracy 14y ago
Leave aside that I don't think the analogy to African aid is quite relevant here, I agree with you. Charity alone isn't necessarily helpful nor does it define the good a person has done. But the lack of philanthropy in SV is indicative of t