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> “We are committed to operating like the world’s largest startup, and … that means removing layers.” I learned a long time ago that behaving like a startup is not a good thing, and I've specifically oriented my career towards working at companies that don't even want to pretend to imitate startup culture. I'm very happy in enterprise-land.
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One of the better decisions I ever made was not ignoring emails from folks recruiting for Amazon in 2003. It was a different place back then, and truly like "the world's largest startup." The other thing that was different back then was that the people I worked with were all so blindingly smart. I'm pretty smart, but in 2003 I often felt like the dumbest person in the room[1]. In 2025 that feeling was rare, and not s…
I think it's reasonable to s/amazon/google in this post -- it's equally true there.
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> Culture of importing cheaper labor that they can manipulate. > The H1B program is broken and ripe for abuse. Offshoring is a much bigger problem. These abusive companies can "save" way more money by exporting the job than importing a worker to fill it, and pandemic-era changes have accelerated that.
I'm starting to think offshoring is better for America. Because house prices are unaffordable. Should a simple house really be $2 million ?
Do you really think it would be better for the rest of America to become like Detroit? Too few have jobs, so housing craters?
The solution to housing affordability is to build more housing (or relocate jobs to where housing is more affordable), it's not to make the common people poor.
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Depends on its location and how many dual earner high income households want to buy it. There is no reason a specific lot should not be worth an arbitrary $x.
Is such gross inequality really good for America?
Sure, the culture of "Jeff wants another yacht"
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The problem with reading that is that it is, I find, almost impossible to stop classifying people into sociopath, clueless or losers....
80% of the time, we all fit into one or more of those categories don't we? The problem is we move between those categories constantly.