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mhoye Feb 28, 2025

True story: I had a one-slide internal presentation I made at Moz, that read "people will say and do and believe literally any crazy bullshit if the only alternative they can see is to feel powerless over something they care about."

One keenly-felt personal failure of my time there was that l could never convince the org that this is not just a truth, but a strategy. So now, people who care a lot about Mozilla have been made to feel powerless a lot in the last decade.

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Jeff Martin

@mhoye While I suspect your intended definition of "people" here is Firefox users, I strongly suspect the same wisdom applies to Firefox developers as well.

In the last few days, I've seen some Mozilla employees do incredible mental gymnastics to paint their employer in the best possible light (probably because their salary depends on it) while (probably) being just as powerless to affect top-level organizational policy as the users.