World politics
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1 week agoStop Avoiding Politics
Politics is how humans coordinate; engineers must engage in organizational politics to ensure their technical expertise informs decisions.
"I believe there are a lot of people who should be learning a lot more from him who cannot bring themselves to do it and to their own detriment," Andreessen said during a recent episode of Stripe cofounder John Collison's "A Cheeky Pint" podcast. The A16z cofounder said that by observing Musk, he's distilled the Tesla CEO's actions into an unofficial playbook that looks far different from traditional corporate management texts, like the legendary General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan, after whom MIT named its school of management.