From 4aecc89eddabf6eda0954ba103002ae89304fe8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:38:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] autopushed --- Open Letter to Google.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index 4f197744d..93e37b31f 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ I started the Agora project back in 2017-2019 (depending on how you count) to de # Google should consider becoming more democratic Most corporations have historically not been democratic at all; governance wise they tend to be (or become) highly hierarchical, in particular as they age and emergent hierarchies solidify and negotiate market pressures. -Google toyed with a form of anti-hierarchy early in its lifetime, way before I joined in 2012. The story goes that Larry and Sergey thought that they could do away with (nascent but ever growing) layers of management, and decided that everyone would report directly to them. The experiment was cancelled after a few months due to the resulting overload. It \ No newline at end of file +Google toyed with a form of anti-hierarchy early in its lifetime, way before I joined in 2012. The story goes that Larry and Sergey thought that they could do away with (nascent but ever growing) layers of management, and decided that everyone would report directly to them. The experiment was cancelled after a few months due to the resulting overload. It made sense it would fail, even early in the lifetime of the company, as hierarchies have evolved to reduce coordination overhead and have strong points that have demonstrably \ No newline at end of file