This is an accurate picture of how Stripe works and evaluates itself: https://stripe.com/us/jobs/candidate-info-culture … (1/2)
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But "we haven't won yet" and "micro pessimists but macro optimists", though somewhat in tension, are maybe closest to the soul of the org.
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I think of micro optimism as clueless and macro pessimism as depressing so seems like you've found a spot where good work could happen.
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I'm now trying to imagine working somewhere that inverted them. "All of our work is perfect and it's never going to matter."
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Certain corridors of academia...
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letting people work remotely from where they are most productive definitely helps (like Maui)

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Maui, or other islands in the pacific. Indeed.
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