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Love this: “It’s the antithesis of a Silicon Valley innovation,” says Alan Epstein, a retired MIT professor who is the company’s vice president for technology a
by PeterWhittaker 11y ago
Love this: “It’s the antithesis of a Silicon Valley innovation,” says Alan Epstein, a retired MIT professor who is the company’s vice president for technology and the environment. “The Silicon Valley guys seem to have the attention span of 3-year-olds.”
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI suppose the world is big enough for both. Sadly, media follows the kids more often than the adults.
- gilgoomesh 11y agoYeah, there are definitely people in Silicon Valley who are working on the same problems they were working on 20 years ago – it's just not very interesting to outsiders so you don't hear about it (until they have a breakthrough).
- nether 11y agoWell, that's what you get with age discrimination. There are probably all manner of worthwhile problems that older people understand better due to experience in long-haul, delayed gratification efforts (raising kids to adulthood, financing a house, chronic illnesses) rather than scrambling for the latest gastropub or gallery opening.
- jimbrusstar 11y agoIt's easy to dismiss Silicon Valley companies as trivial, but if nothing else, SV stands for a culture of experimentation. This, by contrast, sounds like an engineer's nightmare: > “In other years we hid him [McCune] behind the curtain and slipped him some sandwiches so management wouldn’t know what the investment was,” he jokes. Maybe a decades-long attention span wouldn't have been required in the first place if the company in question gave their engineers better support.