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by cm11 4mo ago
My argument was that he wasn't engaging with the topic. I didn't make a particularly heavy case (as you note) for billionaires as cheaters—part of the reason for that is that there are a few low hanging arguments and examples for
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by cm11 4mo ago
The reason her startup was growing so fast was simply that users loved what she'd built. He's said the "make something people want" thing before, his argument for billionaires doesn't seem to go much beyond
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by cm11 4mo ago
I'd guess a lot of people here consider this "reality" at this point. Has anyone come up with a response—not a fix for the company or leaders behaving this way, but a response for their own path? Did you change from a quiet d
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by cm11 4mo ago
This feels too soft. Each of these things has truth in it, but isn't some of this self-created? Where are these shit sandwiches coming from? A lot of these problems are the result of overpromising, breaking rules and skirting regulatio
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by cm11 4mo ago
I think it's private schools in general. Even those from second and third tier ones, which can filter more by means than the elite ones, find themselves atop companies. It's the natural access and the natural ability to socialize
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by cm11 4mo ago
I'd ground what I say in sharing your assessment of the observations or insight, but with a different takeaway. If I need to think about the solution that hard, I may just as well take it all the way, remove the middleman and get s
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by cm11 4mo ago
This I believe is lowkey one of the core ways design broke at tech companies. There are other big ones, design (really product) is broke deeply, but once mockups became easy we stopped having discussions about information architecture and
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by cm11 4mo ago
Does Youtube Premium track and build profiles and use and sell them? I assume so because Google, but does Premium remove advertising (in the broad sense of the business model and profiling) or remove just ads? YT in general seems "kind
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by cm11 4mo ago
Your satisfaction is your margin is their opportunity.
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by cm11 4mo ago
I'm guessing there's some science or research behind this, but I agree. Similarly, I've had projects where I did everything fairly solo—programmed, designed ux/ui, maybe validated with users, etc. It was significantly ha
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by cm11 4mo ago
I feel a bit like some have misconstrued my comment. I reread and can see how it could be read as quality of work being ALL that matters. Indeed, salaries capture many things and many bullshit ones. I don't exactly think what I wrote p
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by cm11 4mo ago
This analysis makes sense to me. I'll add that the little bit of research that's come out suggests individual people are as productive in four day work weeks as five, which doesn't contradict your point. The other thing is th
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by cm11 4mo ago
I don't think this is the reality. It is part of it, but people get paid different salaries, why? Some are more productive than others. Aside from leadership's (and society's) biased ability to determine value, these people t
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by cm11 4mo ago
I think agree with the broad, but disagree with the specifics. I really don't think a lot of people at the product level think about products. I really don't think the investors think that much about companies. I think as you move
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by cm11 5mo ago
Yes, integrity is important no argument. I also agree it distinguishes "networking" and "having a relationship." I do think it can be faked though and I think we see plenty of that.
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by cm11 5mo ago
To be honest, I don't follow. The different stories strike me as telling different/contradicting lessons. But taking just the first one, the Buffet one. I think maybe that's how we get willing people in the bad companies? Bad
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by cm11 5mo ago
Integrity is important and missing. I think there's a contradiction in what you're writing though. Recognizing the importance of personal and social relationships is what's keeping the no integrity people around and/or g
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by cm11 5mo ago
My thought on this was always that micromanaging in this structure is rational and maybe even the best. It's not really a Jobs thing—though he's (right or wrong) probably the picture most people have in their head when they think
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by cm11 5mo ago
Don't forget that they're also functionally structured. The managers don't own products or features, they manage functions (engineering, sales, design). And in practice, they usually only manage people, with little control ov
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by cm11 5mo ago
I'm struck by the assuredness of the responses. People seem to really dislike their designers—their low in the hierarchy, often junior colleagues who typically aren't in the meetings with the execs, the leaders, or whoever else ha
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by cm11 5mo ago
This is of course already how (human) customer service is deployed.
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by cm11 5mo ago
I think it's true that lacking sufficient numbers in power is essential for change, but I also think there is a lack of people who give a shit. I've had many 1-on-1 conversations, some lunch casual and some more directly syncing o
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by cm11 6mo ago
I know they spent time catering to companies to build iPad apps. I worked on some stuff where Apple had reached out to build our existing desktop apps to be optimized for iPad's specific use cases. To be honest, I don't think our
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by cm11 6mo ago
Agreed. I also think the collaboration, pitching, review bits have been heavily design theater for awhile. I'm not saying it was the designer carrying on the charade, but the product team generally. Those steps all really happen only f
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by cm11 6mo ago
In the same way that the "worse" a speaker is at communicating the more likely something gets lost, the same is true the "worse" the audience is at listening or paying attention or understanding. Both ends make the conne
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by cm11 6mo ago
I haven't used Notion the last couple of years either, but there was a multi-year period where someone at each of the companies I was at would champion it, convince someone high enough to transition the team to it, and it would slow th
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by cm11 6mo ago
I will speculate that Notion has had more than one minute to fix it.
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by cm11 6mo ago
Same with credit cards.
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by cm11 6mo ago
I would guess that we don't know because we don't interact with it at all and this would have us interact with it. No doubt that few people would really study very hard or that this would suddenly make everyone experts, but I supp
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by cm11 6mo ago
This concept exists outside of engineering too. It's captured in the more negatively intentioned: ““The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer". In user resear

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