I’ve quit 3 things in my life: a) Quora, b) art of gig substack (cost me 4K in subscription refunds), and c) my last real job. Oddly enough this decision feels most like c), because it suddenly feels like a job.
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Charismatic authority principle: org structure mirrors auteur sensibility
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Conway’s law: product architecture mirrors org structure
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McLuhan: medium is the message
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we work for Musk now
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Musk to employees: This is an engineering-driven culture. You have to work long hours at high intensity. I make all decisions.
Musk to users: This is a paid reach culture. You have to pay $8 and work long hours at high intensity for previously free reach. I make all rules.
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Ah! Tying Conway’s law to Charismatic authority just helped me balance my engineer brain’s view on the changes with my gut feeling of “this isn’t good”. If all the messages in the medium are just talking about the medium it also gets rather pointless/less entertaining.
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