This made me realize how harmful the focus on "impact" at BigCo's is. You got all these decently talented people, who all can see a variety of paths of how they

This made me realize how harmful the focus on "impact" at BigCo's is. You got all these decently talented people, who all can see a variety of paths of how they can help the company, some which uniquely use that persons obsessions, but instead we're asked to cut all those paths short in favor of the one which ahead of time we think will make numbers go up the most for BigCo's core business. No wonder we end up with all these half-assed me-too products. But yeah, thanks Paul for giving me an excuse to keep noodling with programming language design and implementation. I'm sure there's genius to be found in there one day ;)