An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-
The thing that I think makes this letter great, and the reason I upvoted it on a tech site, that I haven&#x27;t seen anybody else mention yet is this: it&#x27;s a universal point.<p>Movies aside, I think his point applies to a lot of other industries, &quot;If I worked at a donut stand, and I kept fucking up donuts, I&#x27;d be fired. Even if I made a tiny decent one every now and then, it doesn&#x27;t matter. I&#x27;m gonna get fired.&quot; I have found this myself in tech, that often those held as icons of genius are often held to lower standards and have the potential to do much more damage than those at the bottom.<p>For example, a startup may have an awful product yet the pressure always trickles down to engineers to make it 10% faster or get in trouble. Yet so often it seems not to be that 10% delivery rate that separates a unicorn from a failure. It&#x27;s a truly novel idea, a great design, and architects who can implement that vision in a stable and smooth way.