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founders for change is yet another example of today's "do as i say, not as i do" attitude. look at the list of companies these founders are from... i'm sure nea

by zomg 9y ago

founders for change is yet another example of today's "do as i say, not as i do" attitude. look at the list of companies these founders are from... i'm sure nearly all are funded by "old white guys" (a term so loosely and arrogantly used today). if a startup is dumb enough to pass on a round of funding because there isn't "diversity" within the investment group, they aren't worth investing in anyway. have people forgotten that VC's are in the money making business? come on folks, get real.

T2_t2 9y ago
I worry more about this blending of life, work and passion into one miasma that is supposed to be consistent and all-encompassing, all the time. Used to be, we had a work life, a private life, friends and activities that more or less never interacted. Now it seems people want all the above, all the time, every minute of every day. Google runs the workplace like they are mum and dad, and everyone wants work to solve all their life's meaning, rather than providing a living so we can find meaning elsewhere. This blending of all facets of our lives is partly why privacy is so skew-if (as we broadcast all the time), and why it is so hard for people of differing views to seemingly get along. In my darker moments, I think a lot of the progressive stuff is a conspiracy by business to make everyone want to work 12 hour days - this idea is not helped by books like Lean In, or the way many modern workplaces invent ways to keep you at work longer and longer. In my less dark moments, I think good ideals have been co-opted or money making purposes, which is kind of how life seems to work. All this leads to ideas like this, where people not only can't separate different elements in life from their life, but demand that all elements of their life conform to their pre-set ideals. I'm not sure who wins long-run between the VCs and the startups in a situation like this, but the long run affects of this blending of life into one thing, well I'm just not sure the animal that is a human being really benefits from it at all. I really wish we could re-seperate out the spheres of our life, and not expect work to provide all our meaning, or provide all of the solutions. I wish instead that we could have a work life and a, for want of a better term, life-life, and (rarely?) the twain shall meet.

by zomg 9y ago

T2_t2 9y ago

I worry more about this blending of life, work and passion into one miasma that is supposed to be consistent and all-encompassing, all the time. Used to be, we had a work life, a private life, friends and activities that more or less never interacted. Now it seems people want all the above, all the time, every minute of every day. Google runs the workplace like they are mum and dad, and everyone wants work to solve all their life's meaning, rather than providing a living so we can find meaning elsewhere. This blending of all facets of our lives is partly why privacy is so skew-if (as we broadcast all the time), and why it is so hard for people of differing views to seemingly get along. In my darker moments, I think a lot of the progressive stuff is a conspiracy by business to make everyone want to work 12 hour days - this idea is not helped by books like Lean In, or the way many modern workplaces invent ways to keep you at work longer and longer. In my less dark moments, I think good ideals have been co-opted or money making purposes, which is kind of how life seems to work. All this leads to ideas like this, where people not only can't separate different elements in life from their life, but demand that all elements of their life conform to their pre-set ideals. I'm not sure who wins long-run between the VCs and the startups in a situation like this, but the long run affects of this blending of life into one thing, well I'm just not sure the animal that is a human being really benefits from it at all. I really wish we could re-seperate out the spheres of our life, and not expect work to provide all our meaning, or provide all of the solutions. I wish instead that we could have a work life and a, for want of a better term, life-life, and (rarely?) the twain shall meet.