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>>fancy_+(OP)

  I have instituted a policy where every major chip design is reviewed and approved by me

A surefire path to success!

>>java-m+F3
Is that something a CEO of a massive company like Intel actually has the time to do in an impactful way? I'm no chip designer but a major chip design sounds incredibly complex and would require a tremendous amount of time & effort to review meaningfully.

>>wnevet+v7
I consult for large bureaucracies where this kind of thing is occasionally enforced.

There’s nothing more fun than a carefully thought out cohesive design that takes into account all business and technical constraints being randomly “improved” by a too-busy senior manager who’s been “off the tools” for decades.

“You should switch to NoSQL.” — a nearly verbatim quote from a meeting just last week. No justification or elaboration, just… abandon a relational database platform with two decades of built up business value on a whim.

“Rejoice! For you have been managed!”

>>jiggaw+K9
I used to work for a chief exec like that. They’d see something on someone’s screen and demand changes, destroying months of carefully planned work with a single comment.

In the end, we’d build in ‘breakpoints’ - things that we knew they’d pick up on and want to change so they felt like they’d had some input without damaging anything important. This worked very well.

>>mattke+Pk
Just remove the duck