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Beware the bozo explosion.
Alex Heath reports in this week’s Command Line that Mark Zuckerberg is hinting at more layoffs to come in Meta’s middle management ranks, saying “I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work.”
That made me think of this legendary Steve Jobs riff on the “bozo explosion” — the idea that prioritizing management skill over actually doing great work is a self-defeating cycle. (True fact: Dieter Bohn and I have probably sent this video to each other every couple months for over a decade now.)
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