Wow. China tech is operating on the same capitalist fundamentals as US. Interesting points:
- saying the quiet part out loud gets you fired
- everyone is expected to squeeze the maximum amount out of themselves and the proof is everything else about you dies
The social push back from the government is interesting & indistinguishable from the role here in the States.
The closing line is the key “our competitors are doing it, we don’t want to lose because we aren’t.”
This is the runaway train of capitalism, when people override the obvious because they assume their competitors are doing the same and probably more.
The whole game is run by fear.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve been drifting from the “short burst to a big win” model of startups.
It’s very, very clear that the tech companies who are new category leaders play the long game from Harry’s latest Twitter post.
There's a fine line between eustress (positive stress) and distress (negative stress)
The magazine has a narrative it is trying to push. Anyone running a business sees this type of thing quite differently. You have to keep people motivated and pushing themselves. You can do it in such a way that is positive or negative... riding that line is exceptionally difficult and every person is different. It is quite possible that culturally they excel when pushed in such a way. Hard to tell from the bleachers.
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The social push back from the government is interesting & indistinguishable from the role here in the States.
The closing line is the key “our competitors are doing it, we don’t want to lose because we aren’t.”
This is the runaway train of capitalism, when people override the obvious because they assume their competitors are doing the same and probably more.
The whole game is run by fear.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve been drifting from the “short burst to a big win” model of startups.
It’s very, very clear that the tech companies who are new category leaders play the long game from Harry’s latest Twitter post.
https://x.com/HarryStebbings/status/1805376621811220863
That said, I’d echo that the people I see at the heart of successful startups have often subsumed almost all of life into work.
The magazine has a narrative it is trying to push. Anyone running a business sees this type of thing quite differently. You have to keep people motivated and pushing themselves. You can do it in such a way that is positive or negative... riding that line is exceptionally difficult and every person is different. It is quite possible that culturally they excel when pushed in such a way. Hard to tell from the bleachers.