Category: Opinion
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Chatlog: why can’t we make big, bold, innovative ideas work in an enterprise?
Chat with friends: exploring the challenges big tech companies face in making bold, innovative decisions due to structural inertia and revenue protection. It contrasts this with the agility of startups and founder-led companies that embrace risk and experimentation.
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Do all software engineers care about customer impact?
I got into a fun chat with my friends about unengaged people at work. Do software engineers care about salary, solving a problem technically (discovery), shipping, or does that work has to have impact in someone else’s life? Of course, different people find joy in many points within this spectrum of outcomes. Interesting question surfaced:…
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App Store
Something we used to talk about in university was the impact an operating system can have on people. A system designer imagines the future and creates capabilities that its users can leverage. It is a form of influence on users to adopt the imagined future. Users, however, behave in unpredictable ways. A system starts to…