Practically every organization in the world is between 1 and 50 people away from catastrophic organizational paralysis, and they’re not executives or the board, they have titles like “network operations level 2.” https://twitter.com/girlziplocked/status/1085388929950466055 …
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And if that isn’t terrifying enough for you, almost every organization depends on external infrastructure without which the same thing happens, and the external infrastructure is subject to the same rule, so the right X people are in fact lynchpins for material fraction of world.
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Replying to @patio11
And if *that's* not terrifying enough for you, in software many of them are not paid and never intended to bear this kind of responsibility
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There’s a curious arc to this, because prior to the Internet most infrastructure at scale was professionalized, and then for a brief period the Internet was a bunch of hobby projects, and then it got professionalized, and then OSS happened, and *then* tech changes made OSS infra.
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Like “If the maintainer of curl goes away everyone who uses curl will be sad but they will still have curl” is very untrue of a lot of things that sound like curl these days; if the maintainer of them goes away builds break worldwide seconds later. (“Poor choices were made.”)
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