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Paraphrasing your closing paragraph: “you may not use this software if you have not already contributed to it” (because enforcing a future is hard).

Seems a bit contradictory to the license terms. Gonna be a trick to get legislation to enforce something that isn’t in established contractual language.

Edit: on the positive incentive approach, getting double-funded with discretionary budget for every FOSS developer they hire might be a viable strategy.

Not disagreeing, but I really hope/wish you’re wrong. This would reflect profoundly short-sighted voters.

> “eat the invaders”

I really want to like this idea, but then there’s murder hornets.

If you could simultaneously affect all an entire generation of humanity, possibly two, then I can see your point.

Otherwise, doing it in isolation will surely lead to disastrous injustice.

Since the start of this, I have noticed more capitalist/western sociopolitical affinity. Antiwar stances have been rare.

Hard to call them out as hypocrites, who cheer on the western David vs the imperial Goliath, but make no claim to antiwar views.

I’m a recently joined SDM in AWS. I do not mean to negate your years of experience. I expect to find exactly your experience as my time progresses and I see more teams.

I find that a lot of Amazon’s management systems appear to be built as safeguards against the pitfalls less experienced leaders might not know how to handle. Unfortunately it is optimized for the “least common denominator” of human collaboration, which is basically coercing individuals to behave like machines. I agree with your characterization of the problem.

I would go so far as to say that I disagree with the system in a philosophical manner. It is opposite of good leadership, in motivating humans to grow, innovate, and create success, in my understanding. Yet I cannot ignore Amazon’s market success; it may have succeeded in spite of these flaws.

I do not know how long I will stay. I anticipate a deep enough philosophical conflict to motivate my eventual exit.

Until then, my team will benefit from stronger cohesion, shared knowledge, clearer prioritization, growth, work life balance, and ultimately happiness. Some of them have taken their first vacations in the last few years, in the few months of my tenure so far, because of the changes we’ve embraced.

I will create a healthy environment of leadership for my team, and we will succeed. We will show Amazon what is required, as long as I can.

If past experience is any indication, I will carry my team’s allegiance because I look out for their interests, individually and collectively.

And when we deliver strategic advancements, we will gain autonomy. If not, I know that my talents can be impactful elsewhere.

I hope that I can quell the tide of dynamics of which you warn.

Quoting Colbert: > Putin is considering running again in 2024, but he hasn’t decided yet how much he wants to win by.

I could not find that particular statement by Hauerwas, but it seems to be a (valid, IMO) narrow interpretation of his perspective in this paper[1]. Do you have an exact citation?

Prescient indeed, and to me, disturbing.

[1]: https://stanleyhauerwas.org/the-importance-of-being-catholic...

edit: typo

For myself, I try to keep it less than 3 simultaneously.

Optimizing for quick disqualification allows you to reduce total time cost. Filter based on roles most likely to advance your long term career goals.

Be mindful that a prospective company that imposes significant time cost on candidates in the interview process may also not be the most humane cultures to work with. You can filter them, just as they filter you, but this may cost you opportunities- only you can evaluate that choice.

In other contexts I’ve seen its opposite called “failure demand”, which I think is an apt notion for this context as well: Increased load on the system, not from original users’ intent, but from the response to failures, including retries from the user due to failures of prior interactions.

I found the paper on metastable failures brought back a lot of systems theory for me.

The brain is part of the immune system.