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The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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That was one of the best articles I've ever read, with regards to new information and excellent story telling.

What's interesting is the style of writing - very short sentences, words of few syllables. https://readability-score.com/ indicates it has a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 7.9 - it read fast, and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey it took us on.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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Early Googler here. It's funny how often the story of the mass-firing is misreported. This article gets two basic facts wrong:

1) Larry was targeting engineering management, not project management.

2) Nobody was fired. The engineering managers shifted to pure engineering roles (an easy move, since they all had technical backgrounds).

On many teams, the managers continued managing, but they did it more discreetly, taking care to stay out of Larry's way. A year or so later, after the engineering staff had doubled in size, it became clear hat it wasn't practical for one VP (Wayne Rosing) to have 200 direct reports, and engineering management came back out of the shadows.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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"With little emotion, speaking in his usual flat, robotic tone[...]As Page talked, he kept his gaze averted, resisting direct eye contact."

Journalists have a tendency of portraying figures in tech circles as being on the spectrum, while very often that isn't the case.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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"With little emotion, speaking in his usual flat, robotic tone[...]As Page talked, he kept his gaze averted, resisting direct eye contact." Journalists have a tendency of portraying figures in tech circles as being on the spectrum, while very often that isn't the case.

Just to clarify what you mean by "on the spectrum", do you mean the mental illness one? It's a new expression for me and searching only came up with things related to autism, etc.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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"With little emotion, speaking in his usual flat, robotic tone[...]As Page talked, he kept his gaze averted, resisting direct eye contact." Journalists have a tendency of portraying figures in tech circles as being on the spectrum, while very often that isn't the case.

Just to clarify what you mean by "on the spectrum", do you mean the mental illness one? It's a new expression for me and searching only came up with things related to autism, etc.

it relates to autism.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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post #5

Early Googler here. It's funny how often the story of the mass-firing is misreported. This article gets two basic facts wrong: 1) Larry was targeting engineering management, not project management. 2) Nobody was fired. The engineering managers shifted to pure engineering roles (an easy move, since they all had technical backgrounds). On many teams, the managers continued managing, but they did it more discreetly, tak…

Humans need their narrative. It doesn't make for good storytelling if a situation is muddled and people's changes of heart are only by a small degree.

Re: The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback

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"With little emotion, speaking in his usual flat, robotic tone[...]As Page talked, he kept his gaze averted, resisting direct eye contact." Journalists have a tendency of portraying figures in tech circles as being on the spectrum, while very often that isn't the case.

Just to clarify what you mean by "on the spectrum", do you mean the mental illness one? It's a new expression for me and searching only came up with things related to autism, etc.

Yes, he means autism.
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