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Quora management update
Here are some updates coming to me about Quora’s management situation in the wake of #QuoraGate. Quora seems to believe that it has the employee attrition problem under control. They’re planning to...
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Quora “emergency raise” pool updates, and other #QuoraGate silliness
I’m ready for this topic to die out. I’m just not into Quora anymore. But there are a few things that I need to address. Earlier on Twitter, I mentioned that Quora was planning an 18% “emergency raise”...
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#QuoraGate over: Quora blames investors, no specific person named.
Assuming that no one goes out of his way to be an idiot, this’ll be the last #QuoraGate post. As far as I can tell, it’s time to call it settled and over. I’ll hold the specific communications back,...
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In my defense. Or: Why I blog about software culture instead of “just...
No one becomes what they expect to be or even expect to want to be, but people often evolve into what they actually want or have to be. People who want to become jerks, become jerks as they get older....
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Censorship continues on Hacker News
Here’s a post, from user lgieron, that was killed yesterday on Hacker News. It will be invisible unless you log in. The full text is below: One thing to keep in mind – coding for a living and coding as...
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On how programmers involuntarily become managers
Something that I’ve noticed in the software industry is that many people will, at one point, state that they have no interest in becoming managers, only to reach out for the positions a few years...
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Silicon Valley can be beaten.
I have struggled, for years, to figure out whether Silicon Valley can be beaten. That is, can that toxic society be outperformed, shown up, and replaced by something with that has better moral values...
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The four stages of a company, the resource-extraction culture, and Silicon...
I’ve observed that companies exhibit certain patterns as they evolve into large corporations, and I’d characterize the most common sequence as having four phases: the colony stage, the legend stage,...
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The brownshirts are out!
If you’re not interested in the ongoing #QuoraGate debacle, just skip this post. You won’t be the worse for it. UPDATE 8:24am CDT: Quora seems to have done the right thing and has deleted the thread in...
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I’ve lost and I’ve won, but Quora seems to be losing. Here’s why.
I have a confession to make. I’m human, and sometimes I get tired, and sometimes I get tired of specific things, and this Quora nonsense is wearing me out. I’m sick of it. In fact, while I’ve enjoyed...
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Quora management update
Here are some updates coming to me about Quora’s management situation in the wake of #QuoraGate. Quora seems to believe that it has the employee attrition problem under control. They’re planning to...
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Quora “emergency raise” pool updates, and other #QuoraGate silliness
I’m ready for this topic to die out. I’m just not into Quora anymore. But there are a few things that I need to address. Earlier on Twitter, I mentioned that Quora was planning an 18% “emergency raise”...
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#QuoraGate over: Quora blames investors, no specific person named.
Assuming that no one goes out of his way to be an idiot, this’ll be the last #QuoraGate post. As far as I can tell, it’s time to call it settled and over. I’ll hold the specific communications back,...
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In my defense. Or: Why I blog about software culture instead of “just...
No one becomes what they expect to be or even expect to want to be, but people often evolve into what they actually want or have to be. People who want to become jerks, become jerks as they get older....
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Censorship continues on Hacker News
Here’s a post, from user lgieron, that was killed yesterday on Hacker News. It will be invisible unless you log in. The full text is below: One thing to keep in mind – coding for a living and coding as...
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On how programmers involuntarily become managers
Something that I’ve noticed in the software industry is that many people will, at one point, state that they have no interest in becoming managers, only to reach out for the positions a few years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Silicon Valley can be beaten.
I have struggled, for years, to figure out whether Silicon Valley can be beaten. That is, can that toxic society be outperformed, shown up, and replaced by something with that has better moral values...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The four stages of a company, the resource-extraction culture, and Silicon...
I’ve observed that companies exhibit certain patterns as they evolve into large corporations, and I’d characterize the most common sequence as having four phases: the colony stage, the legend stage,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#QuoraGate over: Quora blames investors, no specific person named.
Assuming that no one goes out of his way to be an idiot, this’ll be the last #QuoraGate post. As far as I can tell, it’s time to call it settled and over. I’ll hold the specific communications back,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In my defense. Or: Why I blog about software culture instead of “just...
No one becomes what they expect to be or even expect to want to be, but people often evolve into what they actually want or have to be. People who want to become jerks, become jerks as they get older....
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