mkirlin

Rampant competition for talent and nowhere near enough awareness, coordination and collaboration.

Oh no, businesses aren't collaborating enough to successfully push down wages and monopolize sales in their field. How terrible. We must do something about it.

Also an excellent point. The selling of non-lethal weapons has been a several-decades long exercise in manufacturers lying about the safety of those non-lethal weapons. Rubber bullets, tasers, it's all bullshit.

Or better training and actual accountability. It's not like cops use tasers judiciously and intelligently.

Yep. Watch the Walter Scott footage: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/shot-and...

"$1b+ in sales" == "has failed"? Christ, I hope everything I do fails so well.

Nope. A guy is a man, multiple guys are multiple men. Gender-neutral equivalents: people, folks, team, friends, colleagues, you all (and various similar regionalisms - yoounz, y'all). Good on him for making the effort.

Yep. If anything like this actually happens, there isn't a chance in hell that money's getting funneled into the pockets of the employees.

I more or less agree with your reading of this. I found it a little curious that the author didn't mention anything about researchers taking a slightly different tack, like the people who designed the Pronto, a South African-designed condom whose application is much faster than a traditional condom. Obviously condom feel is an issue in usage rates, but I suspect that speed/ease of use is at least as important. It's not like condoms take forever to put on, but the process of locating and using one can definitely interrupt the moment.

"It's crazy how, in our company that's entirely white dudes in their mid to late 20s, we don't really have many issues with sexual harassment, ageism, or racism. We've moved beyond those concerns!"

Valve always gets brought up as an example of a flat structure that works (and it already has been in this thread). Here's an interview with a former Valve hardware engineer describing how the system works in practice: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/195786/ExValve_hardware_e.... She likened the experience to high school, in terms of cliques that developed (which is about what you would expect). Her entire team got fired by Gabe Newell, which I kinda feel should answer any questions you have about whether there's actually a boss - whoever can tell you that you don't have a job tomorrow is in fact your boss, even if they don't want to acknowledge it. She agrees with what a lot of people have already said, that this works in small groups, but that it doesn't scale well.

Honestly, it sounded like a pretty crappy place to work, although she freely admits that she was bitter, and that it's very much a case of a disillusioned zealot. I've enjoyed working with most of the bosses I've had, and I've always thought that it's nice to have people who give you direction and quality feedback. I've had some really terrible bosses too, but the idea that since there are some bad bosses we should throw out the whole structure of management seems like a big over-reaction.

Subject-verb agreement for the internet age will have to wait for a while.

Just Google the title and click the link to the story. Goes right around the paywall.