I remember reading somewhere that employees are heavily incentivized to create new things. Invent something, develop something, just get something NEW out, but there are no incentives to support existing projects. Once a feature or product is complete and released, nobody wants to stay on the team to support it, and there’s no perceived value in even continuing to produce it, much less evolve it.
That’s why Google is always churning out new stuff, and then letting it languish and die. There’s no internal money for support, only invention.
That sounds like south Asian mentality, I mean I’m not saying it’s because of south Asians, but just that it’s a very similar thought process, most observable when it comes to buying new houses, people in India/pakistan where people won’t mind paying large sums of money upfront for fancy condominiums, but will not pay high maintenance fees to keep the fancy facilities going.
I remember reading somewhere that employees are heavily incentivized to create new things. Invent something, develop something, just get something NEW out, but there are no incentives to support existing projects. Once a feature or product is complete and released, nobody wants to stay on the team to support it, and there’s no perceived value in even continuing to produce it, much less evolve it.
That’s why Google is always churning out new stuff, and then letting it languish and die. There’s no internal money for support, only invention.
They really need to just lease these innovations out to new teams that’ll maintain them, or at least just open source it all.
They’d probably make a killing if they kept just making stuff then selling the infrastructure to other companies once they’re bored.
Sounds like American infrastructure…
That sounds like south Asian mentality, I mean I’m not saying it’s because of south Asians, but just that it’s a very similar thought process, most observable when it comes to buying new houses, people in India/pakistan where people won’t mind paying large sums of money upfront for fancy condominiums, but will not pay high maintenance fees to keep the fancy facilities going.