I thought that was a pretty good essay. I've never had Security running the show, but the other scenarios he discusses match my experience.
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Just so; my mistake. (Would have edited, but can't, so my error is preserved for posterity)
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#42Is there another way to view the full article? I'm only seeing the first paragraph with no errors or popovers, and I'm not about to disable uBlock for medium.
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#43> Engineering First Organizations > Like Google or Facebook these are organizations where engineering trumps everything else. If you’re not in engineering, your pathway to promotion is limited. Just browsing Facebook's board... MZ-dropout SS-MBA Mckinsey etc PA-Accounting and Business studies NK- economics & management, Mckinsey again RK - lawyer PT- lawyer Not being engineers sure held them back! https://investor.fb…
By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
Thiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4.
Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.
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Board directors are not usually employees.
1) not necessarily true at all. The board is usually split exec/non exec 2) not true in this case. Two of the people on my list are execs
Boards are usually filled with:
1) Founder/cofounders 2) investors 3) people who do not work at the company and are not investors that people in groups 1 and 2 think will be on their side during important votes
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This is why my dream is to work completely alone. I still need employment to survive but hope one day I won't Another good quote is "a cow with 2 owners gives no milk and eats no grain" (castilian proverb)
DuckDuckGo and Google give me no results for that proverb in English; what does it mean? Each owner steals the other's grain intended for the cow and the cow dies and gives no milk?
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This is why my dream is to work completely alone. I still need employment to survive but hope one day I won't Another good quote is "a cow with 2 owners gives no milk and eats no grain" (castilian proverb)
DuckDuckGo and Google give me no results for that proverb in English; what does it mean? Each owner steals the other's grain intended for the cow and the cow dies and gives no milk?
The common english version is "The fastest way to starve a horse is to assign two people to feed it."
In other words: when everyone is responsible for getting something done, nobody is.
See also: Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-resp...
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By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
Thiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4. Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.
All startups are investor led organizations the moment they take on and raise capital.
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DuckDuckGo and Google give me no results for that proverb in English; what does it mean? Each owner steals the other's grain intended for the cow and the cow dies and gives no milk?
My guess: Each owner says "it's your turn to feed it", and so the cow is never fed. And when the cow does give milk, each owner quickly takes the milk, claiming they haven't got their share yet. It's like the human-scale version of socializing the costs/risks and privatizing the gains.
That's exactly right. The original is "vaca de dos amos: ni da leche, ni come grano" (it rhymes as these things often do). Castilian proverbs are neat ("Refranero castellano"). Centuries packed into short sentences
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By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
Thiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4. Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.
Facebook has produced the best open source software seen in the last 20 years. React basically solved front end frameworks, and pytorch steam rolled tensorflow.