The Risks of Bifurcating Leaders

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GitHub was obviously in a specially dark place when I joined. It's not that having half the leaders is twice as good, it's massively so like you can't put 15, 20 people in the same room. And this at the root of it is what we see layers down when you've got four or five different teams trying to communicate with each other and they can align on a roadmap. "It's almost impossible to break inertia in those types of situations"

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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