François CholletVerified account

Human organizations are like deep nets: to be viable, they require modularity and hierarchy.

And any org bigger than a few friends needs to make its hierarchy explicit and formally defined

"flat" or even "self-organized" structures are not a thing. Failure to recognize this led to the failure of a number of OSS projects

In particular, atomicity of decision making + individual responsibility empirically appears crucial. A product should have exactly 1 owner.

A large product should have 1 product owner and should be split into key features each with 1 owner.