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Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by Apocryphon »

lordleft wrote: post #4

I've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business processes at other companies and want to know if people really are drowning in SaaS access requests

What I don't get here is the title. It's either referring to the employee who goes and creates the autonomous system, or even the system itself, but is "high agency" a corp buzzword the same way IC is?

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by kylegill »

lordleft wrote: post #4

I've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business processes at other companies and want to know if people really are drowning in SaaS access requests

I find the ending particularly funny, we have a small team where we're often building things in-house that we should probably just buy, or rely on manual processes for.

The fumbling with "oops, there's some test data in here" and the issues with the service worker hit a little close to home from some of our demos I've been a part of.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by timetraveller26 »

AndrejSafundzic wrote: post #15

I wasn't involved in the process at all but I saw the creation of this video. I just want to say that I was mind-blown how much work these KRAZAM puts into their videos. Just the mural on the whiteboard took them multiple hours - and, that's for a few seconds of the video. Unbelievable how much love is put into something. And, it sounds weird but really touching to see creatives do something that they truly love.

I loved the Tree of Life reference, I want something like that printed out and put it next to my highly effective pyramid of success.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by mk12 »

swyx wrote: post #14
DoctorDabadedoo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine is "leadership sync": https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06 If you ever worked in a dysfunctional org this video speaks volumes.

this signal the death of the passive aggressive "take this offline" for me also favorite comment "This video captures the absolute weirdness of millennials and zoomers inheriting the bureaucratic systems created by baby boomers"

I find it weird how so much generation discussion seems to skip gen x. I see references to boomer, millennial, and zoomer/gen z way way more often than gen x.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by alphazard »

This is obviously satire, but a significant problem organizations have as they scale is maintaining good taste--recognizing good solutions when they are presented.

Simply put, if that packet with a plan to automate away an entire department existed and was on a conference room table, no one would connect it to the business's bottom line. It would just go unnoticed. A typical corporate America manager would be unable to comprehend that something valuable was created that they were not asked to produce by their manager, and they did not ask their team to produce.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by cobalt »

Apocryphon wrote: post #21
lordleft wrote: post #4

I've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business processes at other companies and want to know if people really are drowning in SaaS access requests

What I don't get here is the title. It's either referring to the employee who goes and creates the autonomous system, or even the system itself, but is "high agency" a corp buzzword the same way IC is?

I assume it means that he used his free time + company time (w/out asking) to solve a company problem

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

alphazard wrote: post #25

This is obviously satire, but a significant problem organizations have as they scale is maintaining good taste--recognizing good solutions when they are presented. Simply put, if that packet with a plan to automate away an entire department existed and was on a conference room table, no one would connect it to the business's bottom line. It would just go unnoticed. A typical corporate America manager would be unable…

If it was tied to their salary they would absolutely care, but otherwise it's just one line item during a performance review that someone might or might not care about at all, because politics matter more during performance reviews.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by davio »

lordleft wrote: post #4

I've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business processes at other companies and want to know if people really are drowning in SaaS access requests

I think this is an ad for Lumos

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #16
el_cujo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Microservices" will always be my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

I was recently reading an article by a Twitter engineering team member discussing how they're reworking a microservice and kept expecting them to mention Galactus at some point. It lives rent-free in my head. This video is a true masterpiece.

I like to sneak in a Galactus reference during system design interview rounds when I feel like I'm about to overengineer the whole thing. I haven't done many recently, but for sure if I'm doing interview rounds, I will try to sneak in some Krazam references.
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