Obviously this analysis is incredibly shallow and would need a ton of conversation and observation I'm just making the point that different phases of product market fit require very different approaches & it's worth being aware. On the other hand if I were managing the same hypothetical team in a highly defined context, for example a mature product or an open source library with a large userbase, the 'quick hack' people would need to change their ways. Not because of speed per se, but because he may be investing too much time in directions that don't help the company learn about their market, and he may be building grand architectural visions that are hard to delete when we realise the product is going in a direction that person didn't anticipate. If I were managing this hypothetical team in a pre-product-market-fit startup I could see the 'slow' person as a potentially greater risk than the others.
I'd also add that it's important to understand the context in which your team is working. You won't look good and nobody will be happy. > So it's important to figure out what kind of manager you have, and try not to be the slow guy on a team full of quick-hack people. Sometimes the simpler less-sophisticated solution just works better in practice. Often a company will have a "sophisticated best-ever algorithm" and then put in a hacky lazy work-around for some problem, and obviously don't tell anyone about it. Many people had perfectly consistent mp3 playback when copying files over the network 10 times as fast in other OSes (including Win XP!) Mark Russinovich justified it by explaining that the network interrupt routine was just too expensive to be able to guarantee no glitches in media playback, so it was limited to 10 packets per millisecond when any media was playing:īut obviously this is a pretty crappy one-size-fits-all prioritization scheme for something marketed as a most-sophisticated best-ever OS at the time:
Reminds me of how Windows Vista's "Multimedia Class Scheduler Service" would put a low cap on network throughput if any sound was playing:
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