"If you're not technically competent you shouldn't use windows because it's harder to use than linux or mac".
Harder but easier and less challenging. The distinction I would make is for users who are comfortable interpreting the command line and those who aren't. That comfort level is what should dictate the user's decision to opt for linux vs windows/mac.
(PS: IMO, mac power use often requires the CLI, but macOS has built-in some guardrails to prevent noob users from completely messing up the system. Linux has no such guardrails).
Both the examples cited here, Airbnb and Apple, have been through difficult times as a result of "manager mode failure".
In other words, "founder mode" worked after a failure of "manager mode".
Yet, would Apple even had continued to exist to this day had Steve not been fired?
From the essay, one thing is obvious, "founder mode" looks very different for a 20 person company than it does for a 2000 person company.
> Obviously founders can't keep running a 2000 person company the way they ran it when it had 20. There's going to have to be some amount of delegation. Where the borders of autonomy end up, and how sharp they are, will probably vary from company to company. They'll even vary from time to time within the same company, as managers earn trust. So founder mode will be more complicated than manager mode. But it will also work better. We already know that from the examples of individual founders groping their way toward it.
The question that I have is, "is it possible for a founder to discover what 'founder mode' is for a 2000 person company, without going through some form of 'manager mode' as the company scaled from 20 to 2000"?
What would be even more interesting is comments from founders/employees of startups where "founder mode" persisted as the company scaled up from 20 employees. Were these companies successful? Do they continue operating successfully?
- I'm not really sure Stadia can be called a "technical achievement at scale". Mainly because it didn't achieve all that much scale to begin with. Definitely a technical achievement in cloud gaming. But the implementation at scale is something that I now see Sony and Xbox working toward (along with their console partners - hardware and software).
- Youtube, definitely, given the content base, the number of active users at literally anytime, is a monumental achievement. But so are a bunch of porn websites. And I know the porn industry doesn't have a good rep. Even in engineering. Still, porn sees more active users than Youtube and netflix combined, albeit, on a bunch of different websites, but a few large enough websites that are comparable to Youtube in terms of active users, and catalogue size. Also, these companies manage to host all of this content and delivery it all over the world on a much smaller budget than Youtube. Not to take away any of Youtube's achievements, but from a technical point of view, I do think the porn industry wins. To begin with, porn streaming is older than youtube, but quite a few years actually. Additionally, from what I've heard, some of the popular live streams on OnlyFans (and similar websites) see more concurrent viewers than most YouTube live streams.
Reed Hastings is also equally famous for having a rather non-traditional managerial style. Especially the "keeper test".
> If a person on your team were to quit tomorrow, would you try to change their mind? Or would you accept their resignation, perhaps with a little relief? If the latter, you should give them a severance package now and look for a star, someone you would fight to keep.
I agree with some of the other replies. That Hastings was very aware of two things
- He's not the best manager
- Corporate manager's are full of bs
IMO, the "keeper test" and some of the other famous and/or controversial policies at Netflix are a direct approach at avoid "manager mode".
> Many credit card providers, at least in the US, let their customers generate single-purpose or short-term card numbers, for when you don’t trust the merchant, or need to let someone else use your card.
My experience with using short-term card numbers has been validation failure in the webforms where I try to use them.
I wish windows fixed it's registry. Documented where different settings are in the registry. And also streamlined the registry to be a lot more intuitive.
UIs will build themselves around a simplified registry.
"Eventually you’ll discover the Easter egg in Git: all meaningful operations can be expressed in terms of the rebase command. Once you figure that out it all makes sense." - Linus Torvalds
> I seriously doubt this is the mistake of $9/hr workers. Those workers are unlikely to be familiar with the whole picture and would probably just have requirements delivered to them. This is not a case of badly written code, the code didn't crash. It just didn't fit the requirements, likely because those requirements weren't known, because someone I'd wager working directly at Boeing getting a industry-typical salary didn't deliver them.