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This is not someone I would hire for a leadership position. Chaos Monkeys, autobiographical in nature, is by his own admission enough insight into his characte

This is not someone I would hire for a leadership position. Chaos Monkeys, autobiographical in nature, is by his own admission enough insight into his character and integrity to show he is unfit to lead a diverse group of employees. If the position he was hired for was in fact that of a low level engineer conceivably who ever hired him did not think it would present too much of an issue? Just doesn't sound like a good cultural fit and I can understand the pushback from folks who would have to work with him as part of a team. I have always considered my professional reputation to be something that took my entire career to cultivate, but can be tarnished inadvertently with one misstep. Probably why I haven't published a book of my personal escapades, and definitely why I don't tweet every thought that pops into my mind.

cryptonector 5y ago
> Probably why I haven't published a book of my personal escapades, and definitely why I don't tweet every thought that pops into my mind. Congratulations! You have confessed to being as awful a person as AGM! Enjoy your cancellation! Yeah, that's hyperbole. Apple shouldn't have hired AGM. But soon things that are acceptable today, like admitting as you did that you have a filter, may not be.
- sumthinprofound 5y ago
  Counterpoint: Having a filter and not oversharing every fleeting thought with the entire world decreases the likelihood of getting cancelled (which is really nothing but good old fashioned ostracism, though I believe the way it's currently being weaponized will diminish over time, lose it's effectiveness and again be reserved for the truly repugnant).
  - cryptonector 5y ago
    Hmm? I didn't say having a filter is bad. No, having a filter is good. You missed the joke. > which is really nothing but good old fashioned ostracism Indeed. We have a mega ostrakon nowadays, and the penalty is worse than ten years' exile.
    - sumthinprofound 5y ago
      Agreed. The online outrage cycle has got really good at that ten years' exile penalty phase, we haven't quite sorted out how to allow for individual growth or redemption. As a species I feel we are still adjusting to this instantaneous global connectivity, and "cancel culture" is an over-correction as we try to define what it means to be part of a polite digital-first society.
      - adolph 5y ago
        Are there any examples of redemption? Or just moving on? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
    - adolph 5y ago
      An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon
  - adolph 5y ago
    Not sharing every fleeting thought will work unless not having enough of a track record of righteousness fleeting thoughts becomes a point of suspicion.

cryptonector 5y ago

> Probably why I haven't published a book of my personal escapades, and definitely why I don't tweet every thought that pops into my mind. Congratulations! You have confessed to being as awful a person as AGM! Enjoy your cancellation! Yeah, that's hyperbole. Apple shouldn't have hired AGM. But soon things that are acceptable today, like admitting as you did that you have a filter, may not be.

sumthinprofound 5y ago
Counterpoint: Having a filter and not oversharing every fleeting thought with the entire world decreases the likelihood of getting cancelled (which is really nothing but good old fashioned ostracism, though I believe the way it's currently being weaponized will diminish over time, lose it's effectiveness and again be reserved for the truly repugnant).
- cryptonector 5y ago
  Hmm? I didn't say having a filter is bad. No, having a filter is good. You missed the joke. > which is really nothing but good old fashioned ostracism Indeed. We have a mega ostrakon nowadays, and the penalty is worse than ten years' exile.
  - sumthinprofound 5y ago
    Agreed. The online outrage cycle has got really good at that ten years' exile penalty phase, we haven't quite sorted out how to allow for individual growth or redemption. As a species I feel we are still adjusting to this instantaneous global connectivity, and "cancel culture" is an over-correction as we try to define what it means to be part of a polite digital-first society.
    - adolph 5y ago
      Are there any examples of redemption? Or just moving on? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
  - adolph 5y ago
    An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon
- adolph 5y ago
  Not sharing every fleeting thought will work unless not having enough of a track record of righteousness fleeting thoughts becomes a point of suspicion.