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No, unfortunately that's not going to happen. Instead, he's going to become incapable of seeing any future of the internet other than "more Google". This seems
by neilk 17y ago
No, unfortunately that's not going to happen. Instead, he's going to become incapable of seeing any future of the internet other than "more Google".
This seems to happen to all their employees, with the exception of Brad Fitzpatrick.
- durin42 17y agoThere's a good contingent internally that haven't drunk the kool-aid, Brad's just the most visible externally. It's a reasonably huge effort just to keep the hubris in check internally, and it doesn't always work out.
- dotBen 17y ago"Brad's just the most visible externally" Which is the other problem... People enter Google and disappear from external sight. I don't think Google has a "don't blog" policy, maybe it is that they just see "google = internet" and decide there is no value in having a public facing side. I wonder whether this will happen to Tim
- durin42 17y agoMany OSS contributors disappear because they're encountering satisfyingly challenging engineering problems as their day job for the first time. It takes a special discipline to actually _use_ 20% time at all (not because of team pressure, just from the ease with which one can focus on the large problems at Google). I've had that problem myself, and am considering putting said discipline in my own written goals.