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Springsteen memorialized this with 57 channels (and nothing on.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_Channels_(And_Nothin%27_O...

You don’t say!

GM is a finance company, not an engineering company. Even buying the engineering doesn’t work.

Their last great innovation was Saturn, and they killed that too.

The code may be gone but not the impact.

A gas station sells gas that is gone within weeks. But someone fills their car, and drives to Mountain View and gets a job that changes your life.

Helping a business grow by 10% more each year because they were an early adopter to websites is something you impacted, even if your code isn’t there to remind people why.

“All we are is dust in the wind.” (Kansas and Ecclesiastes)

Doesn’t 7 have massive InfoSec issues? Or is that scare tactics to push through an upgrade?

What a tarnished legacy. They used to be the model for Silicon Valley.

They have no internal realization of what happens when they turn off large enterprises. They accidentally turned off a $10bln retailer that I’m aware of too. Whoops!

This version is much better, and captures the juvinality of it all.

Is anyone surprised that part of the problem was MongoDB? (Or that replacing it wasn’t hard?)

It told me that things were going to the same place no matter what. :-)

I recall seeing the super of my building mixing the trash and recycling. Really turned me off to the impact of separating our refuse.

What a huckster!

He seems like someone who fell in love with the persona of being an entrepreneur rather than someone committed to their students and the work.

I’m surprised they survived their first brush with the law. Can they possibly survive this? Looks like the persona is still active and in denial.

We’ll, no CEOs ever got fired for hiring McKinsey…

Also by size of company. Things change a lot at 50+. And rules about giving recently terminated employees the first shot if there was a layoff.

My observation is that companies are getting much more precise on their needs. The days of “you’re smart and have a technical background” have given way to “there’s a dozen people in the market who have the exact experience we need, so we will limit our pool to them.”

This is especially painful for college grads, who don’t have specific experience to fall back on.

Interesting. If this happened to almost anyone else I would have pegged this as a result of the zero interest rate policy. Apple has buckets and buckets (and boatloads and boatloads) of cash though.

Perhaps waiting another decade for benefits does come at a cost if the cash could be deployed elsewhere.

The Salesforce reps just couldn’t help themselves. Too much Oracle in their DNA. Ruined the customer relationship, and encouraged the move to Microsoft and their “free” alternative.

Great intentions - this is better than just naming a big building.

Olin college was founded on free tuition paid outbid the endowment. Unfortunately this didn’t last. https://www.olin.edu/admission-financial-aid-afford/cost-att...

Yes - mushrooms and olives on pizza used to be a crime against humanity. I don’t think Papa John’s invested in higher quality toppings.

“Listen to the interviewer” should also be read as “don’t talk over the interviewer.”

I used to chalk that up to nervousness of the candidate. I’ve since learned it’s a very bad sign.

I am a big proponent of what you imply: the best leaders are massive next exporters of top talent. Once you explicitly compensate for that, the optimizers will destroy your organization by promoting mediocre people.

It was a revelation the first time I learned how disposable I was.

The flip side to “work isn’t your identity” is I find that I do my best work when I’m fully engaged and care deeply about my coworkers.

Could there be grade inflation in HS grades (likely) or ACTs (maybe)?

I found I never went back to notes. Getting ahead is the best path.

The one thing worth writing down was exam hints.

Yes. Step 1 of remote is “are you really better than someone in Indiana with an $800 mortgage payment?” Step 2 is “And are you really better than the European Phd at half that cost?”

It’s a pretty awful note.

“ The company was turning over double digit (>$10M) revenue and had more than doubled the number of new product logos in 2023.”

Sounds like he was measuring the wrong things.

“I could say that this should not have happened, but I know that we are not alone in this market.”

Sounds like he’s justifying his failure by point at others in the market.

Written like a Wall Street trader. Oh wait…

Schroedingers treat is simultaneously in the pantry and my stomach until you actually check the pantry.

There will always be a shortage of engaged talented people. FAANG no longer big deals to everyone under the sun doesn’t change this.

The big change will be to folks in the middle. There won’t be huge offers for them any more.