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YZF · 2026-08-30T17:03:56.000Z

IIRC the slides are from Google.

I think the ideas are solid but it's the C-suite that needs to deal with this and rarely cares. In other words, it's about organizational culture.

janpeuker · 2026-08-30T21:25:28.000Z

Yep mentioned in the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727144

pstuart · 2026-08-30T17:09:38.000Z

My overly simplistic take: it's all about incentives.

Usually they are structured in ways that can be gamed and the structure is defined by those that benefit most from them being gamed.

But then again, this is a view from the underbelly of corporate life and I may be missing something.

yowayb · 2026-08-30T19:06:17.000Z

Simple but true. I think some famous people said something about this. I think true from every vantage point. I think this is also very compatible with the parent post. Some leadership are not very good at creating good incentives. Actually, I've never been in leadership but I suspect it's also just really hard and there's potentially external factors that obviate even the best incentives.