Matt Rickard About Posts Subscribe Why Fast? Sep 4, 2023 Patrick Collison, the CEO and co-founder of Stripe, maintains a list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together titled Fast . On the page, he talks about The Eiffel Tower (739 days), Boeing 747 (930 days), JavaScript (10 days), Git (17 days), The Empie State Building (410 days), and more.
Why do ambitious things sometimes come together so fast?
It’s hard to get a measure of organizational productivity. It’s often company, project, and goal-specific. But when it comes to engineering organizations, there are at least some metrics you can collect to help investigate a hypothesis or serve as red flags for further investigation. None of these is enough to diagnose success or failure, but they can be a good starting point.
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