Google's culture enshrined a "anyone can challenge anything" at the beginning.

· Bits and Bobs 4/20/26
  • Google's culture enshrined a "anyone can challenge anything" at the beginning.
    • This was very useful after PMF, and when Google was Not A Normal Company.
      • At that time, if someone was proposing doing things in the traditional way, anyone, including a new grad, could challenge it.
    • But over time, that culture metastasized into a default-no culture, where everything was an argument.
      • It also made it basically impossible to do multi-ply strategies, because each strategy had to be understood by even the most junior team member with no more than 30 seconds of exposition.

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