This 👇. Correlates with my experience on every single big/collaborative project I ever worked on.
Strong vision and a competent empowered leader don't guarantee success. But their lack guarantees failure.
Or worse... protracted, dull, soul-crushing, indefinite, mediocrity.
great quote from karpathy
most great organizations require leader(s) with a disproportionate amount of power
when this is absent you end up with countless hierarchies of ineffective committees, e.g. many google products lack a Directly Responsible Individual with actual power
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@mjuric
👏🏼👏🏼 also for institutes, was just thinking this exact same thing today, so v tired with mediocrity 😞
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@mjuric
I could not agree more. There's some component of this that extends fractally into the organization. Like, a single motivated person working hard on a problem, following their gut - that seems to be necessary for truly great results rather than mediocre mush from a big team.
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@swnelson_
Agreed (a senior colleague of mine described it as a "fractal disaster" 😁).
Incentives are the issue -- few for aiming for outsized outcomes (quite the opposite), and huge ones for merely not failing or rocking the boat.
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@mjuric
You were right Mario, it’s long overdue, time to decouple from Google products.
Received this from a follower. The book "Jack not Jackie" was in her kid's elementary school in LA. When she emailed the school about it, Google immediately disabled her email account! Unbelievable.
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