/Bryan Cantrill

Engineering A Culture tl;dr: Bryan, CTO at Oxide, discusses fostering a culture of "openness, curiosity, and communication,” sharing some implementation details: (1) Uniform compensation, even if it might not scale indefinitely. (2) We are writing intensive, but we still believe in spoken collaboration. (3) We have no formalized performance review process, but we believe in feedback. (4) We record every meeting, but not every conversation. (5) We have a remote work force, but we also have an office. (6) We are non-hierarchical, but we all ultimately report to our CEO. (7) We don’t use engineering metrics, but we all measure ourselves by our customers and their success. 

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Twitter, When The Wall Came Down tl;dr: "For Twitter, the wall is about to come down: the world is going to change — and it’s not going to change back. I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era."

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The Coming Firmware Revolution (Video) tl;dr: "Firmware is software that's just harder to get to." Bryan outlines major industry trends, the end of Moore's Law and introduces us to Wright's Law, which states that the more you manufacture something i.e. a CPU, the cheaper its cost, and the underlying impact this law will have on firmware. 

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Rust After The Honeymoon tl;dr: Bryan outlines personal reasons he's enjoying Rust. "Some are tiny but beautiful details that allow me to indulge in the pleasure of the craft; some are much more profound features that represent important advances in the state of the art."

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The Soul Of A New Computer Company tl;dr: Bryan Catrill is launching Oxide, a new computer company that comes from a deep-rooted philosophy that hardware and software should each be built with the each other in mind ground-up.

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No Moore Left to Give: Enterprise Computing After Moore's Law (Video) tl;dr: Moore's Law has driven massive growth but is becoming economically unviable. Bryan runs through his take on the future of computing, and the avenues that could take over.

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Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering (Video) tl;dr: 45 mins talk on the new dilemmas faced by software engineers, as software "eats the world", technology decision come with increasing pressure and responsibility.

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Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers (2013) tl;dr: Adding engineers to a late project doesn't help. Scale by adding a few number of the best engineers. An outline of how to attract them, demotivating factors & where to find them. Funny hour long presentation 😂.

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