Koshy Cherian

Software Architect. Strong supporter and believer of "THINK PRODUCT, NOT PROJECT".

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.

He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.

Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”

Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.

Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”

Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.

Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”

Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.

Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”

Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.

A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.

Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”

Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.

Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”

The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.

Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”

Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.

He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.

Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.

Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.

You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

Anthropic labs shipped awesome products like Cowork, Dispatch, Claude Code, Claude Desktop etc. over the last few months. Great work!!

[Claude @claudeai]

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.

It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk.

Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

Number of tokens consumed is a leading indicator to identify your workforce of the future.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Almost there

[DynamoDB @dynamodb]

🚀 🚀 Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink! You can now simplify private network connectivity between your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), DynamoDB, and your on-premises networks. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/LjohBrEaJp

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

When trust cultivates purpose and purpose generates energy, people are more likely to become productive, engaged collaborators: https://t.co/QHZaAL65a6

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

@seddfu @davidhogg111 @kayleighmcenany #@

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.

[Matthew Rechs 🏳️‍🌈 @MrEchs]

11 Promises from a Manager: a 🧵

1. We’ll have a weekly 1:1. I’ll never cancel this meeting, but you can cancel it whenever you like. It’s your time.

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

Excited about this announcement. An easy way to validate an idea / do a PoC.

[Serverless @goserverless]

AWS just announced Lambda Function URLs, a new feature to create HTTP endpoints easily and at no extra cost!

Serverless Framework supports Function URLs on day one via one simple statement. Learn more in our blog post:

#ServerlessFramework #AWS #Lambda
https://t.co/P9vgFqkqGR

[Jeremy Daly @jeremy_daly]

So excited about this! #furls #serverless 🚀 https://t.co/X5bj4McEyU

[Dan Ronald @DRo_604]

AWS Step Functions Training! Check out these 5 new modules:
Mod 1 - Intro https://t.co/QXFivFQTN5
Mod 2 - How it works https://t.co/CumU8kfmHF
Mod 3 - Observability https://t.co/tvvxDsewUN
Mod 4- Tooling https://t.co/lWUAciihip
Mod 5 - Design Patterns https://t.co/5ZpjjkSSIi

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

If you punish people too much for failure then they will respond accordingly and the innovation you will get will be very incrementalist. Nobody is going to try anything bold for fear of getting fired. @elonmusk

[Sandy Hook Promise @sandyhook]

The shooter who murdered my beautiful butterfly Dylan carried ten 30-round magazines into Sandy Hook Elementary. In just four minutes, he shot 154 bullets, killing 20 children and six educators. Sign our petition demanding action to prevent school shootings now. -Nicole

[AWS Open Source @AWSOpen]

Introducing AWS Copilot—deploy a production-ready containerized service with only a few commands https://t.co/UHH4OsY2dB

[Chris Munns @chrismunns]

Haters gonna hate. I see a full app architecture where i don’t manage a single server or OS or container, have metrics/monitoring/loggging built in, and with deny by default/fine grained security throughout. Oh and it costs me pennies when not in use and scales automatically. 👍🏻

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

@allenholub It is a mindset for Agility.

[Koshy Cherian @junukoshy]

“Six Rules of Thumb for Scaling Software Architectures” by Ian Gorton
https://t.co/XtTitr1Xc4

[Luciano Mammino 𝕏 Node.js Design Patterns @loige]

Middy, #Nodejs middleware framework for #AWS #Lambda, finally goes 1.0.0 🥳

https://t.co/axVyfL3Mki

#serverless @awscloud @nodejs

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

At press conference that’s supposed to be about the Coronavirus pandemic, Trump laments how much money he’s lost as president: “I think it’s very hard for rich people to run for office.”