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Just stopping by to say that this type of post is absolutely obnoxious and embarrassing for you.

I don't think you are entirely wrong, but it's also not as simple that every tech company can do everything well.

Apple has not been able to make Siri work well and has completely fallen behind on AI/LLMs.

Apple has been trying to build a car for a decade and restarted/rebuilt teams many times with layoffs in between.

Not every culture can support every product

I am avoiding flying Boeing ... as if my life depended on it

You cannot have it both ways. Universities get billions in public funding and then turn around using that money to fund political activists masquerading as academics. Disciplines like sociology are now very open about the fact that academics need to be openly activist to advance. It's disingenuous to then complain about political pressure.

It's quite apparent from everything that has come to light that she got tenured for the same reason she got to be Harvard president. Merit was not one of the reasons.

Unfortunately, nothing will change until the system that produced this changes too. No doubt she will retain her tenured position.

There is a certain type of ex-software founder who likes the pose of philosopher king. They like to describe themselves as 'first principles thinker' but have never engaged in serious thinking since nobody challenges them on anything.

They often end up funding non-profits on AI policy, criminal justice or education reform with absolutely disastrous consequences for everyone who is not able to economically insulate themselves from the fallout. Typically, the things they end up funding espouse principles that fly in the face of everything that made them or their parents rich in the first place.

Everything I have seen and heard in interviews from this guy gives me this impression.

Apple loves to bully competitors and suppliers with both patents and app store. I doubt being on the other end of this will make them change their behaviour.

A cynic might say the Biden administration precisely achieved its goal. Appoint someone progressive with the right optics who has zero experience getting things done or governing in a larger organization. Gets nothing done. Corporate donors are happy.

Could be a good bet, very asymmetric. The question to me is if the execs are leaving because they know Cruise doesn't have it technically and the jig is up, or if it's really more temporary. Hard to know from the outside. It's also hard to translate Cruise's much worse human-intervention numbers (vs Waymo) into a quantative measure of 'behindness' in terms of how difficult it is to catch up.

That's why it could be a good bet. Or not.

It is absolutely True that most larger tech companies could run much leaner. Almost all projects that are done by many cross functional teams with lots of coordination overhead could be done by a small team of effective senior engineers.

Middle management, project/product empires mostly increase overheads with sublinear increase in output.

Are you thinking of Robert Jordan / The Wheel of Time? Robert Harris is alive and writing

"We recognize that biological sex can be defined using multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, genitalia and hormones, each of which exists on a spectrum."

Is this the new land acknowledgement statement for biology? 'biological sex' exists on a spectrum?

We are not the audience. The VCs they are trying to raise the next megaround from are