The Death of the Smart System in Silicon Valley

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From 2005 on outside of that blip in 7 and 8, we had this massive bull run, we had excess everywhere. And then with excess and people not knowing how to do the jobs, they become the norm. So I think you're entirely correct. But I also think that we're well past the point where we should have understood that 100 people with 15 people leaders inside the organization is not a well balanced organization. That is not what we should have been for quite some time.

Jason and Eiso explore the implications of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to flatten Meta's management layers and examine the current ratio of engineers to managers, questioning if this balance is truly efficient or if it's simply a byproduct of Silicon Valley culture.

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