Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
The more effectively we can share ideas, and treat them as composable pieces that are meant to be built upon, and iterated, the faster we'll progress in our ideas.
Kyle Harrison • Open-Source Knowledge
every great product there is someone-usually someone behind the scenes, working tirelessly-who led the product team to combine technology and design to solve real customer problems in a way that met the needs of the business.
Any engineer could push a new idea into consideration at any time, and because the engineers were smart, they came up with lots of ideas. The system soon became bogged down by its own excessive ambition. If a project was deemed particularly vital, it would be “expedited,” leaving the team to “drop everything and fight the new fire.” The individual
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Have a large, dedicated group of people working every day to make other engineers’ lives easier