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Tech in the west has been complacent for years, and it's not just leadership either. People whine constantly about "work life balance" and spend all day demandi
by quotemstr 7y ago
Tech in the west has been complacent for years, and it's not just leadership either. People whine constantly about "work life balance" and spend all day demanding that employers ban everything that offends them. The Chinese, meanwhile, are killing it. Only in the west do we indulge bizarre and self serving ideas like "you do more when you work less" and "what people contribute is less important than the way they make others feel".
Turns out that these beliefs don't actually work. They're self indulgent nonsense. We could afford them for a while, but now that we have actual competition, we can't. We need to go back to old school attitudes, buckle down, get our heads out of our asses, and compete.
- jariel 7y agoSo that 'one app' that 'some Westerners use' which is 'made in China' is evidence that China is now dominant? "you do more when you work less" 1) This is true in many cases 2) Americans work pretty hard. "What people contribute is less important than the way they make others feel" 1) In many cases 'communication matters' 2) contribution and communicating well are not mutually exclusive but most importantly 3) Nobody says this.