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Because explicit hierarchy is almost always better than implicit hierarchy, which is what happens at a "self-organizing" company. A company may start off with good intentions but without some hierarchy past a certain size or tribal connections (e.g. friends and co-founders), then either:

a) Progress slows to a crawl with everyone trying to reach consensus on everything. This also leads to less accountability.

b) Everyone doing their own thing leading to an operational mess and constantly repeated work.

c) An implicit power structure forming and working behind the scenes which then breeds an atmosphere of paranoia and stress.

I'm reminded of these tweets about Valve from Richard Geldreich: https://www.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_...

Yes, I feel pay for developers is going to become more bimodal as time goes on; similar to lawyer compensation.

What's missing from these debates is optionality. A company pays you not only what it takes for you to do the job, but also their perceptions of your options. Two people working the same job on-site at the same company can have a substantial pay difference even without negotiation because one is self-taught and has only high school while another has a master's degree from Stanford. Yes, the former's competent and shows drive and ambition and that's nice. The company just scored a dark horse. But the company also knows the former employee (likely) isn't as aggressively courted by other companies which can pay well, so they feel they can pay that person less.

If you're the only person in the world who can do what Facebook really needs done, they'll pay you $1M+ to do it from anywhere in the world.

Not yet. I just completed the script, slides, and code demo for part 1 today. It's three parts. If you're interested, drop me an email. It's my handle + gmail. When I start uploading, I'll give you early access.

A video course on Natural Language Processing. Very likely it's going to be free.

Citi?

Dairy cows exist because we actively breed them. We inject dairy cows with sperm to keep them pregnant so they keep producing milk, then take their calf away and repeat the process. They're not multiplying on their own.

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