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This works for some, but not all. Eventually you’ll encounter instigators , often not contributing much, that need to be confronted . How are you going to handle them ?

Everything sounds nice and easy on a LinkedIn post , but day to day human relationships are confrontational .

How?

I ran BeOS for a bit, and it was the best OS upgrade experience I've had, besides the Windows 95 to NT 4.0 upgrade.

One of the few upgrade experiences that was a discernable improvement and completely revised experience.

it's a mind virus and we all use them. nothing exceptional there

you're making a broad judgement call off of a very narrow selection.

We've had 15+ years of hyper HR cancel culture espoused by Simon Sinek, Linked In and so on.

Perhaps this is just reversion to the mean?

One of my first bosses would throw keyboards at me and cuss me out nearly every hour. One of my favorites, in hindsight. Great guy. Just passionate, and overworked.

Learn not to jump to conclusions.

You don’t have to think out loud.

confirming every stereotype

The article is very manipulative, and if you read it more thoroughly , you'll side with the CEO and here's why.

The context is that every company's "moat" has been blown away, and we are going to re-play 2005-2025 in the next 5 years (or faster).

Proton was working on post-quantum and a privacy-focused AI . They are continuing to innovate to support customer's security & privacy needs. Privacy-friendly email (and docs) is already 5+ years behind the market right now.

Imagine you are the CEO, and you are struggling with vocal and distracting luddite engineers. How would you handle the situation?

Kudos to him for being candid and direct, knowing that the chat would get leaked. Honestly I wish more leadership would just keep it real.

Team management here.

I'd rather hear that than passive aggressive & vague HR speak. Sounds like a fun company to work at actually.

the evil execs give me lucrative snacks and salary , lots of extra headcount , they are so evil.

Permissions consent prompts are broken. they are far too coarse, and out of context. The customer is forced to consent without knowing the scope or what will break.

A better experience would be an async consent screen, with placeholder content and calls to action until permission is granted.

For example, a network ping scanner could show placeholder host names & status until the user clicks to allow access.

The operating system could easily stub the sensitive APIs with placeholder content and a flag indicating the content is false. So even legacy apps could work.

worse than cigs, better than gambling or porn

DoorDash is like cigarettes, gambling, paid pornography: people are using it in the closet. I know families who order it for 1/3 of the meals or more. Thousands a month in food, so presumably 4 figures in net revenue for DoorDash from a single household.

To say “ i can’t believe people use it “ is obviously a lie. It’s a magic food delivery machine. It’s the closest thing to the Star Trek Replicator we have .

I don’t like it, and you could make a million arguments about why it’s either bad, unhealthy, bad economics etc. But it’s perfectly obvious why the business is huge.

The tools yes, the aesthetics, not so much.