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(1) It was interesting to see Apple employees organizing on Twitter. They don't really have any companywide chat or email lists, but some groups have a Slack (
by diebeforei485 5y ago
(1) It was interesting to see Apple employees organizing on Twitter. They don't really have any companywide chat or email lists,
but some groups have a Slack (only for that group).
(2) In the book he was comparing his pregnant British girlfriend to other women in the Bay Area, intended more to make her look good than others look bad. I don't think any malice was involved.
(3) I hope he's getting some sort of severance, or hopefully he got a good signing bonus when he joined.
- jimmaswell 5y agoSeems like a bad path we're on where you can only have a job if you put forward exactly the right political or social views publically.
- semafour 5y agoBut doesn't that go both ways? It's a bad path if you are only allowed to post your thoughts on Twitter if you put forward exactly the right (according to you) political or social views publicly.
- jimmaswell 5y agoBoth are bad, yes.
- nobodyandproud 5y agoI mean, he wrote a book for the world to consume. This wasn’t a drunk tweet or post; nor some inappropriate if private email or message. I don’t have much sympathy for the fella.
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- elliekelly 5y ago“She’s not like other girls” is a sexist thing to say and it isn’t a compliment. Even still, this: > Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit Is not really something that can be said “without malice” no matter the context.
- diebeforei485 5y agoAgain, I'd urge you to read the context from where that quote was lifted. It's obviously written in an irreverent style, meant to exaggerate the contrast between this British Trader woman vs other women. I read this book when it came out and it was a good read. If we can't have autobiographies written in an entertaining style, perhaps Balaji was right that we should all write pseudonymously to avoid being cancelled 5-10 years later.
- jessaustin 5y agos/women/people/
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoIf you want to favorably compare your girlfriend to the general populace, you can talk about her strength, the things she would do that others might not. You could praise her worldliness, her understandings of the ins and outs of business, politics, and high society. And you could honor how she's straightforward, to the point, and honest. You don't have to denigrate another group of women in order to make the point -- in fact doing so rather distracts from it. I won't debate whether malice was intended because it's hard to know what the state of mind of a person is when they do a particular thing. I can definitely understand how a woman in the valley might suspect she would not get a fair shake from someone who would write these words.
- diebeforei485 5y agoMost people do denigrate their exes, and it's highly unlikely that all their exes have been two standard deviations away from the mean (for that quality) while their current partner is at the mean. Much more likely, if you have a partner who is great at playing the piano (or at politics, or whatever) but all your previous partners have not been, most likely the average person just isn't great at playing the piano. In other words, if you're saying nice things about your partner, the implication is that it's not generally true of other people of their gender - whether or not you spell it out.