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Cover of The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks

The Mythical Man-Month

Fred Brooks · 1974
Mentioned 3 times across 2 podcasts · 2021–2026
Mention timeline3 mentions
20212026
Where it's mentioned
Martin Casado on Frontier Model Economics, AI's Slowdown, and the Cursor Deal - [Invest Like the Best, EP.498]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2026
“The mythical man month is a mythical man month for the reason. Ten years ago, if I had five founders show up and they ask for a billion dollars and I gave it to them, what would happen? Sits there. Or they would detonate ... this comes from I think Fred Brooks, right? And like the seventies”
Bret Taylor - The Agent Era - [Invest Like the Best, EP.386]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2024
“So it's called Mythical Man Month. And It's essentially the myth that I think stereotypically a lot of folks who come from well say a business school background as opposed to computer science background have about software”
#179 Jeff Bezos
Founders · May 2021
“there's this book called The Mythical Man Month. And the guy that wrote it, Frederick Brooks, argued that adding manpower to complex projects actually delayed progress”