People have all kinds of motivations: - change the way something works - make money to achieve a goal now or in the future (pay rent vs. fund kid's education)

People have all kinds of motivations: - change the way something works - make money to achieve a goal now or in the future (pay rent vs. fund kid's education) - support a friend - make a change in the workplace or the industry - develop experience and a career, further a craft But it's almost never "make your business succeed at the expense of other parts of their life." --- > The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. Maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but not far from the truth. That culture is broken. This guy is basically giving a performance review on people he doesn't know doing work he's unaware of based on a single metric. The ego involved here is indescribable. I would never, ever work at Scale.