shoefly

Every day is a new horror.

Take a close look at the teams. A friend of mine had several offers from teams at Google. The first team she choose sucked and she was ready to leave a month after she joined. After a chat with HR, she was transferred to her second choice and has been there for years.

Let the companies know you have multiple offers and that you wish to have one more additional meeting with your potential workmates.

I doubt this will be good for the little guys. Personal experience in the games industry here. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe.

The small midwestern town from which I hail is rotting. The residents could never afford the luxuries flowing here in the valley. They are angry. They are huge Trump supporters. They don't want handouts. They want jobs. They want to contribute. They don't want to leave their homes. They are stuck.

Sums up my interpretation of his writing, which I was forced to digest at uni.

I don't plan on leaving but there are a few fears that make me think about it. These are: Not being taken as seriously as my male colleagues (by men and women). Worrying about being hired for the wrong reasons. Getting boring grunt work that deadens my brain. Not being asked by the team to join them at beer events. And I like beer.

A lot of these things I mention actually happened to me at a few software corporations where I worked early in my career.

My solution was to code my own products on the side. The products became very popular, made much more than I did at the corporations I worked for, so I started my own business.

In those early days before I left, I was starting to drink the coolaid that I deserved grunt work because I sucked, but that turned out not to be the case in the end.

I feel the same. I will stop coding when they nail shut my coffin.

This happened to me once. I ended up coding my own personal projects at the "host" company to pass the time. Otherwise, I would have gone nuts.

Some interesting blurbs from the manifesto:

"This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google’s Mountain View campus, I can’t speak about other offices or countries."

"Change is good (unstable)" vs "Change is dangerous (stable)"

"Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things" thus "This leads to women generally having a harder time ... leading."

"some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the “God > humans > environment” hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change)"

"Thankfully, climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren’t on the right."

"the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8] and sex differences)."

"Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social scientists learn left (about 95%)"

"Ironically, IQ tests were initially championed by the Left when meritocracy meant helping the victims of the aristocracy."

"males are biologically disposable and because women are generally more cooperative and areeable than men."

"Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness"

"empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases."

"Considering women spend more money than men and that salary represents how much the employees sacrifices (e.g. more hours, stress, and danger), we really need to rethink our stereotypes around power."

I hope they go easy on him. He's done some bad, but recently some good.

Whatever we do, it's important that we learn how to control the "ingredients" of our atmosphere. There are so many things that could go wrong with our atmosphere and result in mass extinction. Global warming, ice ages, massive volcanic eruptions, etc. If we can find a way to quickly filter out the crap and rebuild our atmosphere... well, this technology could be used for protecting our Earth and future pursuits in space.

I'm 99.9% certain these vehicles would be forced to fly over existing roads. And it's likely the final product would be autonomous to ensure no one could do a random fly over of your house.

Evolution is a beautiful thing.

I once worked for a monolith who decided to invent a new way of programming. They built something massive and ready to scale even larger. And then they discovered no one wanted the product.

I've worked on distributed teams where kids pop into conference calls to say hi. It actually does some good when everyone is getting pissed about some shitstorm or another. If a kid (or kitten) pops on the screen, everyone calms down and the shitstorm magically evaporates.