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by rhizome 3027 days ago
And that is the kind of low-touch crab pot[1] management practice that irks me.

I have to wonder if structure is actually evolving away, or if it's just a side-effect of the internet birthing so many businesses that management skills are rare in general so people just figure they might as well do without. I'm not nostalgic for the Mad Men era and rigid org charts, but there has to be a better way. If careers are just going to be one long Choose Your Own Adventure game, we all might as well go contract and freelance.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality