It's not possible to pick and choose the best characteristics of your peers and do them yourself.

Best practices have to be grown in place, over time.

You can't duct tape cultural practices willy nilly; they won't fit, and are often incompatible in non-obvious ways.

The only thing to do is to set a direction and over time arc towards it, making tradeoffs between incompatible components when necessary.

It's not possible to have all three of the broad bottom-up entrepreneurially of Amazon, the quality of Apple, and scale.

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