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I had the pleasure of working at Reddit for a few years. I even worked with Chris from time to time. He's one of those people that you can just tell is genuinel
by bink 6y ago
I had the pleasure of working at Reddit for a few years. I even worked with Chris from time to time. He's one of those people that you can just tell is genuinely a good person shortly after meeting him. I'm happy for the success he and Reddit have seen recently.
After reading "We are the Nerds"... well, I don't want to say I got the impression he was treated poorly. But it was very odd. He seems like a hidden founder which is weird considering how many treat Aaron Schwartz, given the stories told about them both in the book.
- spoonjim 6y agoWell people don’t write stories about Aaron Swartz because he worked at Reddit, they write about him because he was persecuted by the corporate-government complex.
- echelon 6y ago> because he was persecuted by the corporate-government complex. This isn't quite right either. They write them because he was awesome. Aaron helped in the development of RSS and Creative Commons. He was everywhere you looked, and all around incredibly insightful (his book reviews and blog are still amazing). He was also well connected: Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig, John Gruber, Paul Graham, ... He was one of the brightest beacons for open source, open knowledge, the web, and open culture. He was incredibly well known and liked before the MIT / JSTOR witch hunt killed him. We lost a luminary. Our world would have been brighter if he were still around.
- toyg 6y agoIt's not like Aaron was treated much better by Reddit leadership... his profile was just higher before and after that experience.