By the way I think I replied to your pro-DIY article. I think a theme between the two is you didn’t identify that these things are tradeoffs. At best, you’re insightful that people go too much in the other direction, but you didn’t articulate what that other direction is, or why they might sometimes do it. Ideally you have something more like a rubric or pros/cons lists for when to go one way or the other.
I think this would be actively bad for a set of internal company principles! Facebook’s central motto was “Move fast and break things” not “Move fast and break things in this situation, but not in this other situation”. The latter doesn’t really work as a principle!
The conditional for all of these principles is “what I think is the right choice for someone working at Lightcone”. Much of the force of these principles comes from conditioning on our specific context. The force of a company culture principle comes from all the behaviors that are appropriate in other contexts that it rules out as not being appropriate in this context.
I think this would be actively bad for a set of internal company principles! Facebook’s central motto was “Move fast and break things” not “Move fast and break things in this situation, but not in this other situation”. The latter doesn’t really work as a principle!
The conditional for all of these principles is “what I think is the right choice for someone working at Lightcone”. Much of the force of these principles comes from conditioning on our specific context. The force of a company culture principle comes from all the behaviors that are appropriate in other contexts that it rules out as not being appropriate in this context.