Say we end up spreading throughout the universe. Well the universe is just another cell in a larger organism, another node on the tree. It will die too, and so will the body that the universe is inside of.
But if we start "universe hopping" maybe it will take a very long time before we run out of hosts.
> Jews wanted to have their own country because of thousands of years of persecution by basically everyone, everywhere
which would never have happened if they had been separatists in the first place. it took thousands of years to figure it out.
But you're saying that after persecution its no longer "toxic, exclusionary, and racist bullshit"? That illogical and steeped in slave morality. persecution is not a currency.
most are actually white separatists, but labelled "supremacist".
Its not about hating other cultures, but about preserving your own, like how Native Americans have exclusive spiritual rituals that outsiders are not allowed to attend.
Imagine calling jews who want to have their own country in Israel "jewish supremacists".
Your post used the words "supremacists", "hate", "nazi", "racist", and "toxic". BINGO!
it sounds great, but I didn't mention why I'm leaving. Got laid off because the company is stagnating, been doing lay-offs since before the quarantine. Turns out a kick-ass culture is safer for job security since the market isn't going to give your company a break just because you want to chill.
But i think you can have a high-energy culture but still be healthy, its just incredibly hard to figure out.
I'm just leaving a company which has been experiencing stagnated growth for a couple of years and everyone I talk to says that the 100% remote strategy has played a role. My company just couldn't figure out how to get momentum or rally the troops and "light the fire" again.
It wasn't just the remote, but the typical baggage people adopt with remote. For example, it made the mistake of adopting "work when you want" kind of attitude because that was always the norm with 100% companies, which is terrible for a VC funded startup. It set the tone of "what did you cook for lunch?", "oh wow, look at your view of the ocean in portugal" instead of kicking ass.
Obviously not the only problem, but remote was definitely an extra layer of hurdles. A lot of problems would have been easier to address in a physical office.
EDIT: the sibling post that says its a "path to mediocrity" is pretty spot on. But maybe you're fine with your company being a lifestyle company, a "good enough" company. That's fine for some people.
why do people need to be consumed by the negative all the time? must everybody be an activist? what do you realistically expect people to do besides talk about it online? is this really the place to virtue signal?
Yeah, its just small drama compared to the real damage Google has caused. Its sort of tone deaf to include that in why Google is unethical. The SV bubble.
If this letter would have started with, "I stayed at Google for 15 years even though I knew it was unethical. I'm a piece of shit. BUT I'm going to try and redeem myself..." then it would have been much better. Some kind of redemption arc.
The damage has already been done, man. You don't magically earn the moral high-ground for "quitting" after 15 years with an angry letter.
I had a friend show me this when I was a kid and I did it for a while. That engineer was probably raised that way and thought it was as normal as buttering toast.
Animals have immune systems too. It’s not a phenomenon unique to humans, as Anthropomorphism would suggest.
> they don’t like it
Who? HNers? I don’t care. I think it more that people don’t like seeing themselves as the virus or cancer, when we could easily change our behavior and we wouldn’t be.
>what's hampering Silicon Valley innovation right now is the outrageous cost of living.
I wish a “remote hub” concept would become popular. Where you work remote but need to be close enough to come in once a week or for big meetings. This would allow people to move a little further away and would possibly allow areas right outside the bay to become an extension of Silicon Valley.
The subtle shaming and holier-than-thou policing, like in your comment, is more harmful and toxic than the trolling. It’s what is fueling the polarization IMO.
Say we end up spreading throughout the universe. Well the universe is just another cell in a larger organism, another node on the tree. It will die too, and so will the body that the universe is inside of.
But if we start "universe hopping" maybe it will take a very long time before we run out of hosts.