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To jump in front of a bullet that no one wants to be struck by? As a PM, I want my eng team to be courageous and stand by their decisions rather than respecting me only once I offer my self in a sacrificial ritual.

I’d prefer I’d no one was punching anyone. Just because a person belongs to a privileged group doesn’t mean that they should be subject to any harassment.

We’re smart enough to convey our viewpoints without having to insult. It only helps with our righteous self-indignation at the expense of making inroads towards actual, positive change.

Let’s not do that. I’m incredibly appreciative of OPs transparency here. As a person who is susceptible to the same degree of stress and mental health toil, let’s not make the story about the investor but rather around the stresses of being a CEO.

Or perhaps we should take a step back and design a new set of rules that can allow Twitter and other companies to moderate without having to be responsible for the content. I feel like there’s a false dichotomy being portrayed here that’s unnecessary.

That’s what’s happening. The article mentions that exact scenario.

Having worked at an OEM and in automotive I can tell that what you’re saying is simply not true.

Where would they get the money? From cutting out the middleman, from increasing sales by offering an alternative to the terrible dealership experience (spending 1-2 hours buying a car is not ok) and from gaining the flexibility to offer alternative business models (i.e. subscription models).

Dealerships are the past. They may very well be the deadweight that will cause incumbent OEMs to sink rather than swim.

I believe this was at Snap Inc. I’ll try to find the link later.

Maybe that’s the business model? It may be cheaper to train than to retain.

You’re assuming there’s only one business model.

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Here are our open roles:

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I'm a PM here. You can reach me on khaled@autonomic.ai or apply directly with the link below.

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Autonomic | Palo Alto, CA or Detroit, MI or Toronto, ON | Full-Time, Onsite | https://autonomic.ai

Autonomic is building the Transportation Mobility Cloud: the platform for the transportation ecosystem. Great team, amazing culture, working on bleeding edge stuff.

Here are our open roles:

Manager of Developer Relations, Technical Support Engineer, Support Engineer, AWS Core Services Engineer, Field Software Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Security Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (multiple teams), Software Architect, Software Engineer - Kafka, Product Manager, Director of Marketing

I'm a PM here. You can reach me on khaled@autonomic.ai or apply directly.

I agree. I has the 2017 S-Line Prestige Edition and I much prefer the interior of a Tesla Model 3.

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My resume is, admittedly, overboard. I created it back when I needed to stand out. I used InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Have you found any viable alternatives to Kong?

That's an example of great design.

I can't help but view Tesla as an ongoing kickstarter. This was made even more apparent in their latest unveiling. I say this as a fan of their vision, mission and current product offering.

IMO this is highly dependent on certainty. If there is a low uncertainty around the product, technology, and/or market then this is a very useful exercise. However, as uncertainty grows so does the futility of trying to articulate a coherent business model.

Do you think the latest surge is sustainable?

While that makes for a great anecdote, there are action-oriented people should not be heeding that advice. An appropriate balance between rational ignorance and analysis paralysis must be struck. Otherwise, it's left to others to deal with your predisposition towards an extreme.

Not only that, but you can quickly solve that issue by going with Pixel/Nexus devices. So I'm not sure that the criticism is well-deserved.

Not OP, but it's not just the ability but its also the willingness to learn new things.

I believe the future of companies will be internal startups vying for investment dollars. With disruption challenging even the most traditional and stable industries, we'll think back and muse to ourselves as to how political and beauracratic we were.

That being said politics will always exist, but not the debilitating level (IMO) to which we've seen in the past.

Yikes, nice catch.

While you may not get validation, you will get a critical analysis of your idea from multiple perspectives. I've already seen some responses with amazing insights that would've taken an inordinate amount of time to gather.

I'm curious to see what improvements to your workflow and to the experience you have seen. I'm open to anecdotes but I'd love some metrics if you have any.

Process is the enemy.

Nowhere in the article is process mentioned. So I'm not sure how you concluded that process was to blame.

Let's say that process is the cause. How would you evaluate and reward people for 'business impact', presuming we have a method of determining it? Wouldn't it be through a process?

Perhaps what you meant to say was that poorly designed processes or a process driven culture cause problems, one of which is employee boredom.

Just because something could be built it doesn't mean it should be. I, for one, applaud the fact that they rolled it out when they were good and ready. Shows a steady hand at the steering wheel.

Yes, but that can also mean that during that it was shelved as a bad idea only to be revived as a scrambled attempt to have a one-more-thing moment.

The PM, Dev Managers & Scientist jobs are not showing. Are they posted anywhere else?

Yes, but I would like to see this against their metrics. Were they growing or shrinking in terms of activity at the same time? And by how much?

I suspect that Flickr's past the explosive growth stage so an optimization like this is timely.