Greasy Spots on Chairs [Steve Yegge]

<p>Watch Steve Yegge's podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4z46Ea35Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4z46Ea35Q</a></p><p>a</p><p>company is like a body</p><p>it's not like a person like a human</p><p>being it's like a thing it's an entity</p><p>that has its own agenda and its own</p><p>goals and its own control of resources</p><p>and its own value system</p><p>and uh</p><p>the individual members of the company</p><p>kinda don't matter as long as they're</p><p>doing their job</p><p>and the company cares about them right</p><p>the way you care about your heart and</p><p>your lungs but if you had a chance to</p><p>replace them with a better heart and</p><p>lungs you would and that's the way</p><p>companies operate too a company you know</p><p>sort of maintains its own health</p><p>uh uh or asks for government handouts</p><p>those are the sort of two options</p><p>and um and so to understand you know and</p><p>the original people who started the</p><p>company sure when it's small and it's</p><p>just a small group of people it's just a</p><p>group of people but when it grows to a</p><p>certain size everybody becomes</p><p>replaceable</p><p>okay</p><p>and this is important to understanding</p><p>why amazon is so dominant across the the</p><p>board okay in everything that they do</p><p>it's it's really crazy so</p><p>so what happens is um</p><p>groups can get diseases</p><p>and sometimes we call it dysfunction but</p><p>it's it's really a disease it's an</p><p>ailment right uh you know to give you a</p><p>really simple example you might have one</p><p>family member who's uh a real problem</p><p>somebody who's in and out of jail and</p><p>always you know uh getting in trouble</p><p>you know with the law or always stirring</p><p>up trouble at family gatherings or just</p><p>generally a problem right</p><p>you can have those in companies too</p><p>right maybe not getting in and out of</p><p>jail they won't last long at the company</p><p>most likely unless they're the ceo</p><p>but you have people