I've also not seen much drama coming out of Waymo in the past. I could be wrong but I guess this is the benefit of keeping your head down and focussing on the problem instead of growing too large.
I think they did something very smart, but I don't know if it was accidental or intentional.
Waymo existed for like a decade on the basis of "we have a pile of money and our founders think it's cool". They moved slow and broke nothing. They made slow, incremental progress exploring the self driving space for years with plenty of funding and no expectation of a product launch.
So when a bunch of other companies came along, years and years later, and were all "we're going to have self driving cars next year!!!", and Waymo had their "oh shit, we better actually make this into a product or why do we even exist " moment, they were already in a really good place. They weren't rushed, they probably could have pivoted to a product a year or three earlier. They'd already solved the problems everyone else was just handwaving.
If it was accidental, they sure got lucky in the amount of time they were given with relatively little pressure, and in the timing of that competitive pressure at the end.
Is it me or does this sound like a Project Manager and not a Product Manager? Where is the discussion and negotiation with customers and engineering teams on specs/targets/requirements? Where is the roadmap alignment with strategy and marketing teams? Where is the discussion with research teams on future features? Product managers don't babysit engineering teams on their deliverables. Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.
>Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.
Despite this, so many individuals stick around and try to make scrum their entire personality. It's insufferable at times to be around folks who do not even want to talk about customers or the product specifics.
We call this island the United States. Just kidding.
On a serious note, I see this kind of anti-intellectualism and skepticism to science frequently in developed countries. As someone who grew up in a developing country I always believed that education and advanced sciences will show improve people's knowledge on these matters. For example, I've met only a negligible amount of people in India who have been against public vaccinations. Meanwhile the number of highly educated peers I've had over the last few years who question vaccinations as an aspect of societal healthcare has been very demoralizing.
The way I see it all these supposed "inefficiencies" got twitter a valuation of 44B and a hub for people across the spectrum to congregate. Firing all these people and goining hardcore mode has only slashed the value of the company by 80% and even more of a cesspool of bots and misinformation, not to mention the exodus of advertisers and a large portion of users.
This is a good example of moving the goals posts. There were lot of claims that [A] would happen. In the end, [A] didn't happen. People say, "maybe it's time to admit that the claims that [A] would happen were wrong," and the reply is "no, [B] happened, so it doesn't matter."
It's certainly possible to argue that Musk hasn't done a good job of running Twitter. But the claim - made by many people here - that the site wouldn't remain function after 80% of the staff was laid off certainly proved to be incorrect.
- Removing the broadcast licenses of news network that questions him. He's been calling them fake news for years.
- More power to the rich buddies. Not just more money, now they get more control over government affairs. Musk and Thiel are frothing over this.
- Control over women and minorities.
- More power to the theists.
Looks like "comparing American society with one of the Middle East does not resonate with me." will soon become apparent as the parallels start to be clearer.
nobody needs media to tell them this. it comes directly from his mouth. it's hilarious that you think people get their opinions from media. no, just listen to what the politicians say. he said he's gonna do mass deportations? believe him
Ooooh, that's gonna be real interesting to see. An anti-vaxxer in charge of healthcare.
Taking fluoride away from drinking water.
Weakening vaccine research and development.
Looks like most Americans will be in for a long suffering in the coming decades.
Combine that with privatisation of health insurance and weakening Medicaid, this heavily points towards a Brexit moment for the USA.
Fixed that for you.
Have been using BlueSky for the past few months. Has been great.