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He mentioned remote work as a part of the bigger issue of WLB. I’m pretty sure in Meta the expectation is way higher in terms of effort and level of performance

He’s not attributing it only to remote work, but to the way G handles work life balance in general

Good for Netflix

Most of the things are bullshit. Especially on the internet where everyone can share their thoughts virtually without any filters.

Kids in USSR also wanted to be astronauts and look what happened to their country

> The obvious similarities are that, now as then, a U.S. president faces the threat of impeachment against the backdrop of a strong economy and surging stock market. Even “Friends” is still popular today, just as it was then.

What? I guess "Friends" mention was intended as a joke here, but it surely does not look funny considering previous sentence.

They can write such articles every year:

- stocks are surging and there are wildfires in California, just like 20 years ago

- market is down today and Schwarzenegger is making new Terminator, just like 30 years ago

How does trial cancelling interface look for other apps? The one from the twitter post looks like cancelling of the paid subscription

The example which author provides does not strike me as a great illustration for this point though.

> “Hey, I think we should experiment with Kotlin. It has lots of traction, Google officially supports it on Android and seems might help us write better code. Here is a PR showing how it’ll fit into our project.”

> “Umm, engineers will need to learn a new language. We have other priorities right now. Let’s consider it later.”

Without knowing too much of details, this looks like it can be a very valid point against introducing new language or technology when you truly have higher priorities and current choice of languages is good enough.

I think you should've mentioned this in your blog post, especially if you're comparing the money you've made from equity to new college grad salary at Facebook