meta physical deflationist6d ago

im assuming someone has written about this but its really odd(not actually) that all of these tech layoffs are almost all the senoir weird people and minorities

its almost like they put up with us long enough to get all the prior art and now believe they can go back to only talking to people who see the same small painting of reality they do

we had 40yrs of telling them "well actually we cant get faster horses" which made them all so mad and now that they have a fake person who promises the impossible they dont actually care if it works.

Show threadmeta physical deflationist6d ago

to every young person out there truth matters more than anything else

also one important truth is you dont owe other people the truth when they dont value it. give the king the lies he wants, maybe oneday you can poison him

Show threadmeta physical deflationist6d ago

i literally had a Director of Product(not @skinnylatte who would not pull this shit) take a thing that I said, frankly a simple statement about platform engineering thats very commonly held, and asked ChatGPT what I meant by that and then had the gal to tell me what i meant instead of just talking to me

this is not psychosis, this is narcissism will new tools

Show threadAdrianna Tan6d ago
@glassresistor I would probably agree with you on almost all platform engineering statements
Show threadmeta physical deflationist6d ago

@skinnylatte i believe you did but we each had a person below us who would sabotage any attempts to spread out ownership and responsibility because they main goal was getting our jobs and being in charge of their peers

which they wont get cause our old boss doesnt actually like them she just doesnt see them as disposible

Show threadmeta physical deflationist6d ago
@skinnylatte i had one person basically saying why was i keeping them from doing X work and how C was so supportive of it and I had to tell him C had basically told me to fire him and X was useless but would never actually be brave enough to own her opinions
Show threadmeta physical deflationist
totally unrelated biotech has seen this as the natural evolution of every company.
1. hire every weird Phd and grad student and self taught expert you can
2. build a pirate ship of freaks that works harder, faster, and better than any top down org can
3. hire some industry veterans with MBAs and an old Phd
4. make a big deal about scaling up and organizing the chaos
5. the freaks gladly jump in happy to try and optimize processes theyve hated for years
6. hire a bunch of normal people and train on the easier process
7. v1 product is out of research and 2/3 company now in sales and admin
8. new leadership is weirded out by the freaks and blames them for any issues and relates much more to the new hires
9. v2 product is paused, research stopped, and freaks fired
10. new hires coast till ipo
Mar 17 at 1:34amWeb