marina on Nostr: Insurgents are basically insane by society’s standards, anathema to the status quo, ...
Insurgents are basically insane by society’s standards, anathema to the status quo, and often destructive. But they’re the source of everything new in the world.
From the moment a company is founded, always by insurgents, incentives to short-term survival attract gatekeepers, who naturally fear and try to isolate new radicals, then tirelessly work to grow the team of more gatekeepers. On a long enough time horizon, the gatekeepers always take the company. Then, it dies.
Gmail, a firebomb happily tossed at the status quo, was fundamentally an insurgent product. It could not have been built at Google even ten years later.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/paul-buchheit-interview-mike-solana
From the moment a company is founded, always by insurgents, incentives to short-term survival attract gatekeepers, who naturally fear and try to isolate new radicals, then tirelessly work to grow the team of more gatekeepers. On a long enough time horizon, the gatekeepers always take the company. Then, it dies.
Gmail, a firebomb happily tossed at the status quo, was fundamentally an insurgent product. It could not have been built at Google even ten years later.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/paul-buchheit-interview-mike-solana