Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/14/24 5:07 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:20:58 +0100, D wrote:
 

Sounds like a good man! You should keep him!

 I don't think it was 'What Color is your Parachute' but there was a book
from the '70s that had a punchline like 'How to hire an employer.' It's a
worthwhile way to think. They're not hiring you, you're finding
corporation that will provide a sales force, accountants, and all that
business cruft while you happily write code.
 Many people dream of having their own business. Been there, done that, and
found the business part very tedious.
 

 This is a very powerful mindset I've had my entire working life. I think more people who are employed, should think of themselves as one man entrepreurs, as you say, you are the one with value, and shop around as you would if you ran your own business.
 As for having my own business, yes, the accounting is tedious, but I pay about 400 EUR per month to get that done for me.
 This is also something I tell everyone who wants to start their own business. For the love of god, outsource all accounting as quickly as possible.

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 This is a productive philosophy - assuming you have
 the Right People. (Almost) independent agents can be
 highly productive and inventive. It takes only a light
 hand to kinda infuse them with 'the mission'.
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 Alas most managers, knowing they're crap, go for the
 heavy dictatorial hand as psychological compensation ...

My company is very decentralized and relies a lot of distributed decision making. I only have sub-contractors, so they all have their own customers, and are therefore entrepreneurs. This offloads me, and makes the entire operation very efficient!
We do make it a point to meet physically 2 times per year. The rest of the time, we're 100% virtual and mostly email driven with occasional video calls and chats (quite rarely unless we come together several of us on the same project which happens a couple of times per year).