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still-learning 3 hours ago

>People get hired by contributing to the repo. It’s a very self directed job, with one meeting a week and a goal of making tinygrad better

I find this organizational structure compelling, probably the closest to reaching 100% productivity in a week as you can get.

ttul 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder what happened to George’s old policy of requiring everyone to move to San Diego?

georgehotz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's comma.ai's policy since they make hardware and solve physical problems. The tiny corp has been hybrid (remote-first) since day 1 because it primarily writes open source software, and there's a long track record of success with remote for this kind of task.

We have a few whole-team meetups in Hong Kong each year for 2-4 weeks, and there's a San Diego or Hong Kong office that anyone can work from as they choose. We also have a wide array of fancy multi GPU boxes that everyone on the team gets full access to (known external contributors can get some access also).

I think many companies that were quick to embrace remote have walked it back, not everyone is capable of working productively remotely, nor are all types of work amenable to remote.