Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
![Ben Horowitz Quote - Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mark-andressen-was-more-popular-than-me-at-the-tim-683x1024.jpg)
