Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta
by SoftTalker on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:47PM
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You also have to be ruthless as required and not take no for an answer. Sometimes you have to run people over and leave the bodies in the ditch to get stuff done.
And two years later, your idea fails and your boss says:
> A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it.
So serious point: if everyone is ruthless and tries to push their own ideas through, how can a manager know who is right and which direction to follow?
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta
by doctor_eval on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:36AM
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It doesn’t even have to be innovative in a global sense. Just making suggestions that are outside the experience of the people you need to convince can become futile.
Egotistical people with power are more than happy to ignore maths and rationality. I don’t know why. It never works out for them and it brings everyone else down. It’s very frustrating.
People are busy and attention is scarce so knowing how to genuinely push and sell your idea in such environments is a rare ability and one that needs curation.
You'll find that people who rise are ones who can do this.