I’m shocked this title is coming from a PostHog employee but more shocked that is seems to be relating not his experiences but a shared one. But as I read I quickly noticed a problem.
Charles isn’t describing Collaboration.
He’s describing people being voluntold to seek validation from other people. That is politicking and blame diffusion and has fuck-all to do with collaboration.
Collaboration is a small number of people reaching a consensus on a thing, understanding how and why the decisions were made, and executing on those decisions. All of these things are necessities in a 24/7 operation. You need a bus number on everything and how are you going to get a bus number without collaboration? It can be done but it’s slow. Often painfully so.
Charles isn’t describing Collaboration.
He’s describing people being voluntold to seek validation from other people. That is politicking and blame diffusion and has fuck-all to do with collaboration.
Collaboration is a small number of people reaching a consensus on a thing, understanding how and why the decisions were made, and executing on those decisions. All of these things are necessities in a 24/7 operation. You need a bus number on everything and how are you going to get a bus number without collaboration? It can be done but it’s slow. Often painfully so.