Developer Hegemony

Developer Hegemony

The Future of Labor

Erik Dietrich

Proxy Trap

Metrics become mirages when optimized directly.

The perverse incentive is that looking busy is far more important to your career than adding value.
Winning Coalition

Organizations minimize coalitions needed to maintain control.

In the context of a nascent company, ownership and power are uncomplicated and largely the same thing. But context is key because ownership does not exist in a vacuum. Whether your ownership matters hinges on the volume of what you own and the context in which you own it.