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I'm kind of confused on the timeline: "Last week as a favor to a friend..." "The best engineers quietly put the word out that they were available, and in less
by scj 17y ago
I'm kind of confused on the timeline:
"Last week as a favor to a friend..."
"The best engineers quietly put the word out that they were available, and in less than month..."
While both statements can be true together, it would seem to me that "in less than a week..." would be more appropriate, and devastating.
I realize I'm just fussing over unimportant details though.
- gvb 17y agoThe second statement is referring to the four times Steve saw this happen in the past, in other companies. If his prediction is correct, the company whose board he sat in on last week will start seeing an exodus soon.
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- barrkel 17y agoYou left out the bit in the middle: "I had lived through this same conversation four times in my career, and each time it ended as an example of unintended consequences."
- scj 17y agoI would agree completely with you, if the next sentence was "In a similar situation at a different company, no one on the board..." But without such a line, I read that as commentary based on previous experiences, followed by a continuation of the main story. (I assumed that "the board" in the next sentence referred to the board in the first part, which lead to the continuation. This is re-enforced by using "This company" and "the company" which would imply that the author was referring to the only company introduced)