- The guy was a principal engineer at Mailchimp.
- Assumes he solved the problem of organizational complexity.
- Quotes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy instead of any relevant operational or organizational research.
- Firms tend to ignore outside perspectives and examples. (which is often true)
- Assumes an organization is a distributed computational process. (it's not)
- Kant.
- The *amount* of work (i.e. work hours) a company can dish out grows linearly with headcount.
- Time for parallel tasks amortizes to zero if more resources are added. (no idea what this means...)
- Assumes organizations only write software.
- Assumes people know or care what "superlinear productivity" is.
- Assumes productivity = added value.
- Says that orgs should optimize for individual productivity.
- Queue theory and King's formula and hand-waving about contention
- Management consultants are bad at writing code.
- (I gave up after that)
- The guy was a principal engineer at Mailchimp.
- Assumes he solved the problem of organizational complexity.
- Quotes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy instead of any relevant operational or organizational research.
- Firms tend to ignore outside perspectives and examples. (which is often true)
- Assumes an organization is a distributed computational process. (it's not)
- Kant.
- The *amount* of work (i.e. work hours) a company can dish out grows linearly with headcount.
- Time for parallel tasks amortizes to zero if more resources are added. (no idea what this means...)
- Assumes organizations only write software.
- Assumes people know or care what "superlinear productivity" is.
- Assumes productivity = added value.
- Says that orgs should optimize for individual productivity.
- Queue theory and King's formula and hand-waving about contention
- Management consultants are bad at writing code.
- (I gave up after that)