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Legacy media holds a structural grudge against technology due to disruption
“Media has a grudge against technology for, frankly, understandable reasons. Like everyone in media works for an institution that probably was negatively affected by tech.”
Lütke: Anti-Nuclear Environmentalism Drove Global Reliance on Fossil Fuels
“A lot of our carbon issue in the world comes from the environmentalists convincing the world that even though we're building a
economy that required nuclear power, we could somehow do it with coal instead, and oil.”
Satya Nadella executed subtraction at Microsoft better than most founders
“Nadella has done it at Microsoft in a phenomenal way, like, potentially better than many founder CEOs can. But it's about probably 10 times harder to do or a hundred times harder.”
Lütke: Someone else should run Shopify if it only acquires innovation
“I, if Shopify would turn under my watch into that, I think someone else could do my job better.”
Matthew Walker's 'Why We Sleep' promotes anxiety and makes false claims
“There's a book, which initially I thought was good, called Why We Sleep, which is actually very bad from everything I now know. I mean, it's not that the book is, Incorrect. In the macro sense. But it gives you it, it, I think the book itself is anxiety induci…”
Training junior developers is a bad investment in Silicon Valley
“Where in Silicon Valley, where, you know, like, some companies are sort of pushing in their R&D teams, 12 months average tenure for staff, like, that is a silly investment to make.”
Lütke calls Google's internal "Googliness" scoring concept super dystopian
“I think apparently, I, I've never worked for Google, obviously, but apparently people talk internally, talk about sort of a Googliness score, which to me sounds super dystopian, and I hope I score lowly, I score low in that.”
Lütke: Very few large companies have ever attempted sustained innovation
“I think it's not unique, but it's probably single, maybe low double digits of companies have ever attempted it. Most companies are just trying to be, like, build, like, find their market fit, their core competency, and then play a defensive game around this, w…”