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50, 100 years from now, Larry Page (if he's even dead yet) will be remembered as one of the more impactful people in human history.
He won't unless he builds libraries and other public institutions. You need to build things with your name on it in big letters for people to remember you. Larry has not as of yet done this in a big way at least not given his present net worth.
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He won't unless he builds libraries and other public institutions. You need to build things with your name on it in big letters for people to remember you. Larry has not as of yet done this in a big way at least not given his present net worth.
Just like Socrates
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…
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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.
Why not just call it what it is: sloppy journalism? Ignoring the facts to further a pre-determined narrative would more commonly be called a lie.
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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 normally means on the Autism spectrum, which, if you understand contemporary clinical psychology, can mean anything or nothing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum For a time about ten years ago, it seemed as though everyone would be placed on the Autism spectrum, but psychologists realized what that would mean (i.e. if everyone is mentally ill, then no one is), so they threw out Asperger's, said it wasn'…
Say what you want about Asperger's, but my son has autism and I can assure you it's a real mental health disorder, however many kids might somehow get diagnosed with it.
50, 100 years from now, Larry Page (if he's even dead yet) will be remembered as one of the more impactful people in human history.
Search engines existed before Page, granted not as good but they existed. Google rode the internet explosion, whereas Jobs and (drumroll...) Gates brought a computer in every home.
What he will be remembered is for tainting the Google brand. It was golden, now in many circles they see them as biased, full of ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7600532 , deceiving consumers and a behemoth deserving to be taken down. Downhill has started
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…
"The project managers Page had intended to fire that day were instead brought into Google’s growing operations organization, under the leadership of Urs Hözle."
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Actually, few paragraphs later, he did say they are not fired. "In the end, the layoffs didn’t stick. The project managers Page had intended to fire that day were instead brought into Google’s growing operations organization"
But they were never even laid off, that's the point. How can layoffs "not stick"? If people were fired they wouldn't still have been working there.
"Rosing explained that engineering was getting a reorganization. All engineers would now report to him. All project managers were out of a job."
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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.
Why not just call it what it is: sloppy journalism? Ignoring the facts to further a pre-determined narrative would more commonly be called a lie.