I read the book on Sunday. I think there was a lot of selection bias -- a company which would hire a random journalist at a high salary to write blogspam, badl

I read the book on Sunday. I think there was a lot of selection bias -- a company which would hire a random journalist at a high salary to write blogspam, badly, and not fire him for underperformance, is the kind of company which will have asshats in various management roles, too. You end up with the bozo explosion. Imagine that book if he had gotten hired into a meaningful role at a company like SpaceX. I suppose that is ultimately what happened -- joined a great writing team at HBO and performed as well as the team.