An app where you and your SO swipe left and right on restaurants until there’s a match. No talking, no negotiation. Who’s building this?
George Mayer
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George Mayer
@GeorgeMayer
I build and write things. Startups then big tech (ex @meta). Now back to startups. Helping people make better software. trycanary.ai
- Remember when someone thought this was a good idea for a mouse?
- Without other reliable heuristics, this is what companies will do.
- I'm an E7 at Meta (principal-ish). I worked hard to get here. Here are all of the ways I was privileged/got lucky (in chronological order): 1) When I was in college, my mom wanted to start an online dating site. She had personal insight. I studied marketing and English in school
- Burnout is the result of working on something where effort and success are not correlated. Burnout is not a sign you should take vacation. It’s a sign you should find another project or job because the one you’re working on is probably going to fail.
- I think something many people don’t understand is that the workload and hours go UP as the title goes up. Directors work a ton, and VPs work non-stop. There is a whole storm raging above project-level ICs that mostly goes unseen.Coming up on 3 years of being an engineering manager, my honest take is that at the FAANG+ level it's difficult to advance your career only working 9-5
- Replying to @GeorgeMayerOk it turns out I was wrong on like all accounts. They still ship today and people love them.
- I don’t actually get the point of kubernetes.
- As a high-level IC at meta who isn’t in charge of a specific large-scale system, my job is basically to fix big, ill-defined problems. The problem with these problems though is that they usually can’t be solved by one person, or else they already would have been solved. They’re
- One of the biggest reasons an organization isn't innovative is that managers looks to parse out who did what on a project. This causes ownership anxiety and hoarding behavior, especially for ideas. But an individual can only have the start of a good idea. It takes a team to
- I wrote that my job at meta was to find and tackle ill-defined problems. People asked about my approach. I guess it's being creative. But my version of creativity is when your brain connects two unrelated ideas in an elegant way. And it can be systematized. Here's how I think
- The actual optimal software engineering path is to shoot up to senior and just stay there and code for the rest of your life.
- I worked in new product experimentation at meta after @nikitabier. He literally wrote down his playbook. I’m not going to share it because I don’t think it’s mine to share, but oddly it’s somehow both fully repeatable but also he might be the only person that can repeat it.
- Replying to @growing_danielThis gets at the truth about ny pizza: its floor is higher, not its ceiling
