This post about Marissa Mayer’s company Sunshine on Platformer is several months old, but I saw it linked again this week and wanted to highlight something:

Employees say they learn what they are working on each week during Monday morning standup meetings, and that their mandate shifts frequently as Mayer changes priorities.

This sounds exactly like how I run Micro.blog, actually. Founder mode, I guess? It sounds chaotic and “bad” but it’s also a strength of a very small team to change our minds quickly.

@manton that sounds right 😅

@manton just curious, have you ever publicly shared a roadmap of where you’d like to take your service?

@manton Isn't this what agile is meant to be? It sounds like Sunshine had/has other problems.

@KimberlyHirsh For sure. There are so many photo sharing apps, not an easy market to break into either.

@KimberlyHirsh @manton But I think the problems were definitely not agile.

> When employees ask Mayer questions on Slack, employees say, she often prefers to answer them in person, delaying action. Sunshine manages its projects using Monday.com, but the app is not widely used internally, and in practice many projects are tracked on a white board, which the team calls “analog Monday.”

This brought back bad memories from my previous job.

@KimberlyHirsh @manton Also, all decisions and product suggestions in the hands of only one person who is often not the best/creative one, is gonna end badly.

@manton Sounds like the place I work at now, except we don't get the luxury of knowing what we're doing every Monday. Priorities change with the wind. Not for everyone, but found myself not hating it as much as I expected.

@manton I don't think you can take that paragraph out of context like that. 🤣

The article doesn't appear to describe anything positive—perhaps positively toxic.

It’s certainly not what I understand you to be describing or how I've heard you talk about developing Micro.blog before…

@ryanbooker Yeah, my comment started as a joke, then turned more serious. Although I’m sort of annoyed with articles that kick a company’s leadership while they’re down, as if management mistakes explain everything.