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dasil003 3 days ago

Yeah but what do you want to do about it? The engineers I see making these mistakes day-to-day are not going to connect the dots if I just point them to the seminal writings. Heck, half of their complaints are of the same form as yours: if only the majority of [engineers, colleagues, stakeholders] were aware of [A, B, C principles] then we could avoid repeating [X, Y, Z failures]. Yeah it's exhausting, life is exhausting, and it doesn't inherently get better with knowledge and experience as the gap to the lowest common denominator only increases; the only balm I've found is focusing on what I can control.

AndrewKemendo 3 days ago | parent [-]

Well for starters I literally organized our company and all engineering around Conway‘s law and it’s working great

That’s like the absolute bare minimum you can do, it’s trivially easy and solves a good half of these “problems.”

dasil003 3 days ago | parent [-]

How big is your company?

AndrewKemendo 3 days ago | parent [-]

A better question is how quickly are we growing…

We’re currently around 30 in engineering full time and 40 if you include ops, logistics etc…with new funding and coming out of stealth etc we expect to hit the dunbar number (~150 this year)