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i was half asleep on the plane and realized this was true what if bigtech is just a very expensive program for distracting people who would otherwise absolutely chimp out on the remainder of the old establishment and a way to keep them under the thumb of overgrown HR depts https://t.co/QkuSHEPyFl
this feels like a turning point in retrospect https://t.co/FQSxAxjWhH
https://t.co/bpsBqmjPzZ https://t.co/uWfXa6JrgP
how it started / how its going https://t.co/2hBZETuwvk
@eigenrobot it used to be finance before that. it's wherever the money is I am increasingly resolute on my own position: most people who choose a life of trinkets over revolution were never interested in revolution they would never "absolutely chimp out" because they were always cowards
@eigenrobot some people have difficult circumstances and they have to make trade-offs because of family, etc but when a person has rebellion in their spirit, in their heart, you can fucking tell. you can see the fire in their eyes. they will nurse the flicker of the flame to their deathbeds
@eigenrobot we are too hopeful about the % of people who dare to do radical things, who would do radical things if given the opportunity. most people, when presented with the opportunity to chimp out, won't. the default outcome is 99% of people chicken out. https://t.co/rS4Cyy1GGA
@eigenrobot I have a lot of mourning and sadness for the systematic destruction of humanity's creative spirit, but IMO that happens long before anybody goes to Google https://t.co/Cm4vPNDmjL
To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine... https://t.co/EnrzXNXgt1
@visakanv @eigenrobot Yeah. I think Google *does* crush most people there's talent, and they would flourish in a different environment, but typically when this happens their version of flourishing would be to be a happier more effective cog in a more interesting machine.
@visakanv @eigenrobot It's easy to accidentally near-snuff your rebellious spirit though, and Google was a nice wake up call for me in this regard. Got to Google, saw the future, went "fuuuuck that", and have been mostly free range ever since.
@DRMacIver @visakanv @eigenrobot For me Google was an essential part of crystallizing the seed of rebellion that was always present in me It made me realize that no matter how gilded, a cage is still a cage https://t.co/DmSili2ABg
@CountJ0ecool @visakanv @eigenrobot Yeah, I could see how it would have that effect. For me it was just the point where I hit rock bottom on a path I was already on. I wasn't happy with my career, joined Google hoping it would fix that, and it was even worse.
@DRMacIver @visakanv @eigenrobot Oh same And the actual job was really quite good, I do recommend Google as a good place to work It's just not somewhere I could ever stick around, and I can't imagine a better conventional workplace So, unconventional it is 🤷 https://t.co/Dx2wu9gU05
@eigenrobot Absolutely. https://t.co/WDFPd8Ho0K