As startups grow there is extremely strong pull into what I call the death spiral of bullshit. More people -> more teams -> more buy-in required -> more meetings -> being persuasive rewarded more than building -> builders leave -> nothing gets done

Speaking from a decent amount of experience given that this (#1, #2, #4) is exactly how Notion product development worked early on, this works fine at small scale. It works horribly at medium-to-large scale. Why? #1. As the number of things a company works on grows, communication overhead gr... See more