10 Aug
2022
10 Aug
'22
12:54 a.m.
On 8/9/22 2:49 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
I used to complain about this at Sun and was dryly told "We get it,
Larry, you are yeast. You need flour to make bread."
And as time went on, I found that the smart people tended to find each
other. So it was fine.
It is more fun when it is a highly curated group of smart people. Made
me work hard to keep up.
Put another way, "If you're always the smartest person in the room,
you're spending your time in the wrong rooms."
From: Rob
Pike
I still marvel at the productivity and precision
of his generatio
We noticed the same thing happening in the IETF, as the number of people
working on networking went up. The explanation is really quite simple, once
you think about it a bit.
If you have a very small group, it is quite possible to have a very high
level. (Not if it's selected randomly, of course; there has to be some
sorting function.) However, as the group gets much larger, it is
_necessarily_ much more 'average' in the skill/etc level of its members.