What Colin Percival thinks about management

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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1 Sept 2025

Our readingWorking with the entire ecosystem produces better long-term results than focusing solely on your own organization's immediate needs.

Their wordsWhile the same does not directly apply in other fields, working with others to produce the best results for everyone will be much better in the long-term than focusing solely on what Amazon needs right now.

↗Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadershipdaemonology.net 2nd of 3 in this piece