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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Technology; design; research. Inventing tools and media which help us think. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 3 Dec 2018

    “That’s a simple web app. Why do you need thousands of people to do it?” I found this observation on hiring dynamics from ⁦@naval⁩ in ⁦@eladgil⁩’s High Growth Handbook particularly striking.pic.twitter.com/u5lnWq8dvF

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      2. Dave Rahardja‏ @drahardja 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak

        This snippet seems problematic—normally people doing the hiring aren’t the ones doing the “work”, and at each point they’d be in a position to evaluate whether hiring is the right thing to do. Over-hiring is a management/strategy problem, not a natural outcome of working hard.

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      3. Dave Rahardja‏ @drahardja 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @drahardja @andy_matuschak

        Additionally, having worked at two megacorps that were famously laser-focused on “reducing waste”, I can tell you that a relentless focus on waste reduction is also self-harm. Neither extreme is good.

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      2. Florent Crivello‏ @Altimor 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        I’m biased, but I of course disagree ;) Like Adam Smith said, “the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.” The bigger a company grows, the more it makes sense for people inside it to specialize.

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      3. Florent Crivello‏ @Altimor 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @Altimor @andy_matuschak and

        Also, the smaller of an impact they need to have, relatively speaking, for their salary to pay for itself, eg an engineer making a change increasing trip conversion by 0.05%

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      1. Marc Verstaen‏ @verstaen 3 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Hire only people who can do some of what you do better than you.

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      1. Amjad Masad  🎱‏ @amasad 3 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Hiring feels like its progress. And company building is fun in the same way kids have fun playing grown-up so it's tempting for founders to hire for the sake of hiring.

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      2. Matias Ketonen‏ @matiketo 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        @JulianitaM

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      3. Juliana Méndez‏ @JulianitaM 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @matiketo @andy_matuschak and

        This book is just amazing. I read every page so slow because it brings so dense info, implications and todos to think through. ❤️

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      2. Matthew McLeod‏ @mattmcloudy 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Disagree. The nature of human beings is to work hard on things we find interesting and valuable. As a product owner you need to convey that to your team, and you should expect that people’s output on operations won’t compare to new features.

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      3. Deepest Lore  🤡‏ @LoreDeepest Apr 8
        Replying to @mattmcloudy @andy_matuschak and

        This means that novelty of tasks somewhat drives work ethic. That makes sense. This also means that as a product develops waning novelty can reduce motivation.

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      4. Deepest Lore  🤡‏ @LoreDeepest Apr 8
        Replying to @LoreDeepest @mattmcloudy and

        Implication: best business opportunities can arise where novelty fills unmet market need. This makes cutting employee fat easier. That said, I would P&D an industry after I lost vision for novelty.

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      1. Fábio Oliveira‏ @banaslee 5 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Over simplifications are dangerous.

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      1. Ryan McKay-Fleming‏ @rmckayfleming 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Never underestimate people’s want for new friends/reports. Most hiring is done for social reasons.

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      1. Polytropia‏ @polytropia 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        “be ruthless about firing” should be taken as extremely hyperbolic. You don’t want to open the door for managers to be able to use “gut feel” firings to get rid of superior engineers in order to protect the career paths of their less capable but more subservient lackies.

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      1. Matt Guttman‏ @RealtimeAI 3 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        “People” don’t like that model. Naval likes that model. Hm.

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      1. Dominique Luna‏ @lunaticd Apr 8
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Ironically twitter is the first app that comes to mind

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      1. Bobby C‏ @BobbyC249Art Apr 8
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @RobTiffany and

        There is always waste these days because we have raised several generations of lazy slackers that think they should get a reward for just playing the game. This taught them not to work.

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      1. Ben Hambrecht‏ @BenHambrecht 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Very remindful of David Graeber‘s theory of „bullshit jobs“

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      1. Patrick Renschler‏ @renschler 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @naval @eladgil

        Patrick Renschler Retweeted Auren Hoffman

        reminds me of @auren who talks a lot about a future where businesses pivot to vendors instead of hiring employeeshttps://twitter.com/auren/status/1069298273922347008 …

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        There is a massive opportunity cost to hiring someone. Each additional person is like creating a new feature for your product. Every hire means you cannot do something else. Every hire takes away your attention. Every hire adds to the org complexity. Every hire needs support.
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      1. William Saar‏ @saarw 4 Dec 2018
        Replying to @andy_matuschak @steipete and

        It takes real ownership to have this kind of efficiency focus. How far into growth do these kind of decisions start to get made by people who are highly disincentivized to fire, or otherwise acknowledge problems in their org?

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