Re:Ask HN: How to keep good culture as you become more senior?
by ggm on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:42PM
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The evidence is that scale is against you, and the profit motive is against you.
I tender as evidence: "don't be evil"
Some amount of navel-gazing is needed. The thing would be to keep it as small as possible. My own personal barrier is 45min meetings not 1-2hrs and half-day, and no workshopping the semicolon in the mission-statement. That said, I could handle once a year? and a subcommittee?
Some of this is unavoidable. Culture changes. We don't make women leave the workforce when they get married any more.
I tender as evidence: "don't be evil"
Some amount of navel-gazing is needed. The thing would be to keep it as small as possible. My own personal barrier is 45min meetings not 1-2hrs and half-day, and no workshopping the semicolon in the mission-statement. That said, I could handle once a year? and a subcommittee?
Some of this is unavoidable. Culture changes. We don't make women leave the workforce when they get married any more.