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    1. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      An immature stack like Web3 might have only a few layers. That’s high alpha, and you can build rough frontier things with very high upside potential. What you build will mature along with the stack itself, enjoying multiple rising tide effects.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      A mature stack like Web2 might have 3x to 4x as many layers/tools/moving parts to build a complete thing. And while you can command huge salaries and stock at mature companies if you’re in the top 1% of stack mastery, the median stack-master will make much less.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      This gets at something that’s been bothering me for a while. The depth/breadth of technical knowledge needed to do a job do *not* correlate well to compensation. For example housing general contractors on HGTV shows seem to be walking oracles, but it’s a tight margins business

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    4. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      There’s a product dimension too. For example if a new language becomes popular for say robotics, and you put in serious hard work writing or porting a linear algebra library for it, everybody will love you and thank you and you’ll be viewed as a mensch, but not get much reward.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      But if you do something that hooks into the alpha of the new stack in a fundamental way, for eg in the case of a robotics language maybe the best concurrency module… you’ll get all the esteem AND financial rewards. You’ll probably end up as a senior architect at a top company.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      The Q-James Bond relationship is an interesting example. Q invents new stacks, but Bond usually reaps the rewards because he can cash out the alpha effectively. More true of old hardware-Q than young new hacker-Q.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      Venkatesh Rao (田 ) Retweeted CEO of midwit inc

      Yep. Unfair, but true. Tech is a business that rewards cashing out stack alpha with frontier product engineering way more than keeping critical things running in civilization core.https://twitter.com/10xmid/status/1478467568214196224 …

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      CEO of midwit inc @10xmid
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      reminds me of this pic.twitter.com/5mDQ0F1t0r
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    8. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      Engineers I meet naturally seem to fall into two types: Tool-master types who excel at all pieces of a mature low-alpha stack Strategic technologist types who are often mediocre at the tools they use, but have a nose for seeking out and leveraging high-alpha stacks

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    9. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      The latter usually log big wins early in career and establish reputations as “technical entrepreneurs” so to speak (ie they wrangle stack risk, not market risk) and end up in engineering leadership. The former usually end up as senior fellows or something if they’re good.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao (田 )‏ @vgr Jan 4

      Engineers don’t seem to talk much about risk management from an upside perspective. Only downside. Eg security holes in a fragile new stack. But some seem to have a natural instinct for upside. As in “if I use this janky new component now, it will pay off big time in 3y.”

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       🤷🏻‍♀️‏ @DanielleFong Jan 4
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      they *do* however suffer through all kinds of things to be at the most interesting and live of cutting edges, though! and work hard when there

      12:59 PM - 4 Jan 2022
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