<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?</title><text>Life is pretty absurd and wonder more and more why we put so much stake into a job when the employer effectively doesn&amp;#x27;t care about you.&lt;p&gt;Anyone taking some time to do cool stuff?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tester756</author><text>&amp;gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think.&lt;p&gt;I cannot imagine companies doing GPU, CPUs, Windows, etc. with just 20-50ppl.</text></item><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham&amp;#x27;s idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here&amp;#x27;s the gist of it:&lt;p&gt;Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it&amp;#x27;s members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.&lt;p&gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?&lt;p&gt;0: You were not meant to have boss - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;boss.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;boss.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: rewording.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>space_fountain</author><text>Well you&amp;#x27;d have to imagine a lot more collaboration between companies, so say company A just markets CPUs in the US nothing else, while company B works on just shipping logistics (to stores which handle the actual delivery to end customers). I think the real problem is that so many boundaries between disciplines make novel collaboration strategies between the parts much harder. It&amp;#x27;s difficult for say a marketing person to suggest a change to the box design</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?</title><text>Life is pretty absurd and wonder more and more why we put so much stake into a job when the employer effectively doesn&amp;#x27;t care about you.&lt;p&gt;Anyone taking some time to do cool stuff?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tester756</author><text>&amp;gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think.&lt;p&gt;I cannot imagine companies doing GPU, CPUs, Windows, etc. with just 20-50ppl.</text></item><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham&amp;#x27;s idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here&amp;#x27;s the gist of it:&lt;p&gt;Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it&amp;#x27;s members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.&lt;p&gt;This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?&lt;p&gt;0: You were not meant to have boss - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;boss.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&amp;#x2F;boss.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: rewording.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_gabe_</author><text>Valve would like to disagree with this sentiment ;)&lt;p&gt;Sure valve isn&amp;#x27;t making GPUs or CPUs, but they did make the steam deck, in addition to the largest online game store, and several high quality AAA games, and the valve index. They apparently have around 250 people according to a quick Google search, but that still goes against the mindset that you need 10s of thousands of employees to make a successful large scale tech product (whether that&amp;#x27;s software or hardware).</text></comment>