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Isn't SoftOps just product thinking from an ops perspective / designing the developer experience?

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. Interes…

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 …

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…

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 wha…

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…

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…

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…

https://link.medium.com/NqoAewqtT8 I wrote a (relatively lengthy) case study about Musk and his ‚physics-driven‘ approach to problem-solving (my own research and interpretations). …

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 / sell…

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 mic…

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 se…

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 tec…

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 ther…

The innovator's dilemma Systemantics A farewell to entropy The nature of technology - what it is and how it evolves On being wrong

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. ar…

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) …

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 ma…

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 out…