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Is "Does it Need to Scale?" a Question We Should Ask More Regularly?

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Whilst at Google, Avery Pennarun realised that building for "Internet scale" made easy problems harder. So he left to build Tailscale, focusing on the long tail of developers who just need computers to connect.

Avery talks about the need to ignore Silicon Valley's scale obsession (and how it paved the way for their success), and why removed *AI* from a tech strategy helps reveal the real issues.

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