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Think it’s standard these days

In my last role as a senior you were siloed, with little visibility on larger company goals, cross team issues etc. It was nigh impossible to have a holistic view of things like mentioned in the article. I was lucky when the staff engineer handed me a problem to fix.

Have since moved to much smaller company, and I think the advice is valid there.

> where are the 100 year improvements in the status quo of software?

Most software work is just churn / doing the same thing over and over. More productivity can just mean more output, not better output.

What was the book?

The inverse was true for me, at 40 I realised a lot of doors are now closed or closing.

per capita is a bit weird, maybe people in the UK don't drive as much.

This guy is really churning out awesome projects right now (or at least the videos for them).

I got his satellite clock kit for the office and love it!

Maybe it's a scale thing. If you are sologeneer working on your own project, with a singular vision, making tools to make your life simpler is a no-brainer.

If you are implementing a feature for stakeholders on a large piece enterprise software, you don't necessarily have knowledge or understanding of helper tools from earlier work, so that's extra overhead to understand anything non-standard. Then when the stakeholders change direction (as they often do), any assumptions in your code may need to be upheld while implementing the next feature.

Edit: This is also why it's nice to use widely adopted libraries and frameworks for any helper code. That way a new starter has a chance of understanding what's going on.

For this to work I think the assumption is that the benefit of gerrymandering is less than the "anyone who doesn't like the in power guys" effect. e.g. % of disgruntled swing voters.

TLDR; More volume per session/week = more growth?

So really it becomes a balance of maximising volume against sustainable recovery.

> People rarely stop in the middle of a road

How rarely? How does it compare to self driving cars per km driven?

Totally agree. If human drivers make more mistakes per km than autopilot then what sense does it make to stop self-driving cars?

Maybe? I think the problem is does a small entity like a person or a start up have the resources to make that fight with a big entity? Even if it’s a really obvious and winnable case?

Good example of when obvious patents harm innovation.