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Wow. This man seems to have a personal grudge against Raghavan. I knew people hate Pichai, but this brutal.
PR needs short-sellers too.
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It gets better: > a management consultant wearing an engineer costume > his expertise lies primarily in “failing up,” ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he caused
How can one learn to do this?
The tech fluff pieces are wild. And that entire paragraph about how the execs for Yahoo failed horribly, hired a new one, and that one lied about his degrees, and they hired another . People failing with golden parachutes, and others failing upwards into even more lucrative roles. I think that's the thing that is eating away at the core of our society: basic contracts like "fail and you won't get rewarded" or "succee…
google search was horribly unusable for me yesterday in English from California.. it was obviously changing my search terms and then delivering "popular" content, not at all what I was searching for.. literally not at all.. this sea change is related to the AI rush -- very disappointing and at the same time alarming, due to the previous universal reliability of google search
https://bsky.app/profile/dahosek.bsky.social/post/3kqm25jwsf...
The tech fluff pieces are wild. And that entire paragraph about how the execs for Yahoo failed horribly, hired a new one, and that one lied about his degrees, and they hired another . People failing with golden parachutes, and others failing upwards into even more lucrative roles. I think that's the thing that is eating away at the core of our society: basic contracts like "fail and you won't get rewarded" or "succee…
And it's not just "people" in general. It's certain people: It's people beyond a certain tipping point in their careers.
If I, as a low level worker bee fail in my job, to the point where I need to leave, I just leave and jump back into Resume Thunderdome to fight for the privilege of doing another 11 round interview nightmare full of code challenges and take home tests.
If my first level manager fails and leaves, he might have a bit of a tough time too, maybe a little easier since he has that all-important "manager experience" that unlocks many doors in silicon valley that are shut to me.
On the opposite side, if anyone in my company who is SVP and up fails spectacularly, they are 100% leaving with an exit bonus of $millions and are probably getting a title bump in their next job: a job that is literally sitting there waiting for them to take, no job application needed.
I visualize it as a hill. At my level, when you leave the company and let go of the rock, it rolls down and to the left, back into Thunderdome. Past a certain crest in the hill, which we'll call "Director," the rock rolls down and to the right when you fail, and you get better and better positions.
People easily see this exclusive club and yea it's demotivating as hell, and eats away at the idea that the world is just, fair, egalitarian. It's certainly corrosive to society.
What's the source for all of this? It includes reportage of a bunch of conversations where there's no way this guy was present.
I am directly citing emails revealed in discovery as part of the Department of Justice's antitrust suit against Google. They're all linked in there too! And you can even see who was CC'd. It's a little confusing because some of them are part of one big, fat thread that you have to read from the bottom up.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It gets better: > a management consultant wearing an engineer costume > his expertise lies primarily in “failing up,” ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he caused
How can one learn to do this?