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Writer's pictureRichard Lipscombe

Life inside a nanosecond start-up


Connecting with the nanosecond world

There are blue cables everywhere. It is like a forrest of blue cables that seemingly dangle randomly from the ceiling. There is stuff [boxes to be unpacked] everywhere. There junk [empty pizza cartons] everywhere. There is network generated heat everywhere. There is a map of the end-state network displayed on a huge table in the centre of the only open space: only one person can read this thing [the architect]. The architect is standing at the table with a tiger team, a set of visiting experts, the money folks, and his bosses; most times he is exasperated because none of them understand what he is saying.


People everywhere in this place [and on their sales missions beyond it] are accustomed to the fact that what they are saying does "not compute" with their closest colleagues inside the bubble or their clients who live outside a "nanosecond" culture. In part this problem persists because the ideas within a "nanosecond start-up" are "highly contestable". However it is not the ideas that must form some version of "group think": the real need is that the plan [with thousands of large and small alterations] lying on the table maps a new "nanosecond" network that is sustainable, reliable, revenue positive, expandable, and offers us a wormhole through to the future.


Living within a jungle of tiger teams, scrums, Friday sign-offs, Monday reset, audible battles over ideas, pizza meals 24/7, drug hang-outs, etc is a moment-by-moment ride of extreme highs and very low lows. This is a place full of "fears" [failure, success, being found out, getting trapped, etc] and "courage" [keeping going, doubling down, learning from success].


This is a workplace where "the next challenge" is what keeps people turning up. This place is where what has just been achieved is merely a stepping stone towards what can, and will, be accomplished within the next nanosecond and beyond.


Richard


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