Robert Scoble departs his AR company following sexual harassment claims
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Apart from that I agree -- never really paid attention to what he wrote because what I did read wasn't insightful or useful.
"Since he appeared on the scene I have always wondered, how in an environment where engineers take pride for what they have actually done (US tech world), a guy that only talks and has no engineering accomplishment to show is given that much cognitive space. Back when he was a Microsoft evangelist (!) I have watched a few videos of him to get the sense of a talking human being. And I could't believe how shallow he was. His whole demeanor was one of an airhead."
To add to that, and get back on the topic, how can someone who has not writen a lot of code or designed significant hardware consult someone? And companies are obviously willing to pay him. What a world!