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Wow, not much left of the semi - would love to see a photo of the metallic puddle it's presumably become...

I suspect massive companies like late stage GOOG and AMZN will always be dominated by an oppressive machine in the rank and file. It seems inevitable at this scale.

But the wonderful thing about these places is they can create/acquire/prop-up small subsidiaries. If they're self-aware enough to know the oppressive force at their size, they leave these offshoots alone (until too big, where the cycle repeats anyways). These are the parts where you can still experience the magic being discussed.

Presumably working at X Development (formerly Google X) still has a lot of this energy and autonomy.

What percentage of cybertrash depositors are TSLA hodlers and musk apologists?

I'm pretty confident in saying it's far from zero.

Your comment in this thread led me to Vilos Cohaagen of Total Recall vibes...

I believe it was Eric Schmidt at Google who once famously said "revenue solves all known problems" in an all hands

There's a reason he didn't say profit...

Not saying I agree with the sentiment, just noteworthy and perhaps something to reflect upon while judging behaviors aligned with this perspective.

I'm decades older, and it seems to have always been a rare thing to be part of a small team of talented people building something special and relevant to the future. These were and are exceptional places and that's arguably why they produced something we're talking about today.

Watch Office Space if you haven't already. That's what most of the irl white-collar existence really reflected throughout my career. And unless you actively pursued (and arguably created in part yourself by seeking out, showing up, and participating) something special even back then at a startup, you were very likely missing out then as much as now.

There are still people making things, irl even. I'd be surprised if Tenstorrent didn't have an environment like you're pining for, or Tilt Five.

good riddance - subaru ICEs are mediocre at best, totally overrated fanboy junk

- a subaru forester owner who wanted to like the vehicle but is tired of oil leaks and counting the days before a head gasket lets go

TL;DR fear

It doesn't take much life experience to learn bosses are generally bossy people. Even before they've ossified into retirement it's a rare breed that can control the behavior contextually.

"fake think tank" sounds a bit redundant