Tom So

No one can see past a few months in the future for any software development project. That was the major failure of the waterfall approach. Roadmaps are at best North Star visions of where a company should head towards.

A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this mess? Much easier to clear the forest and plant a legible “scientific” forest. Uniform rows of trees that produce good lumber. Now we can count the trees, make a map,... See more

15: you might not want to be a manager, people treat you different, its a lot of work and its very heavy