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Mike Dilger | 6 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +2 
 If we only had half as many people working on nostr, we would be making twice as much progress. šŸ˜
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sommerfeld | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What a programmer does in 1 month, 2 programmers do in 3 šŸ« 
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christiannell | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 mythical man month
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dk | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 provocative, but iā€™m curious about this topic

too much thrashing? not enough reuse? tough to build consensus on common infrastructure/libraries? general communication overhead?
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Mike Dilger | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes to all of that
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garden_variety_jess | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Is this an Elon Musk joke? šŸ˜„
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Mike Dilger | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Maybe he said something similar?

I just thought it was a funny way to express that the community has far too many good ideas, and the overhead of looking at all of them takes 120% of my time, leaving -20% of my time left to do development.
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garden_variety_jess | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I was basing it on the fact that he laid off like 50% of Twitter when he came on. šŸ˜… but I know what you mean.
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Mike Dilger | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Aha. Gotcha.