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Not to be mean, but I'd say that Brian Armstrong took the actions he did to weed out people like you from working at Coinbase.
by jdhn 5y ago
Not to be mean, but I'd say that Brian Armstrong took the actions he did to weed out people like you from working at Coinbase.
- sagichmal 5y ago"People like [the OP]" are in my experience consistently better at what they do than the sort of folks which Coinbase is now apparently soliciting.
- jmeister 5y agoExactly the opposite in my experience. The top competent/productive people I’ve worked with were too obsessed with their craft to even think about politics.
- slownews45 5y agoThe folks pulling the late nights on projects and delivering great results - normally the issue is to get them to stop talking about work all the time (happy hour?!) - not to get them to start talking about a social justice issue around microaggressions or whatever!
- sagichmal 5y agoI’m not sure why you think people who care about justice draw that energy from the same pool that motivates their work, as if it’s a zero-sum calculus. It isn’t. People who think about things systemically tend to apply that perspective in all of their practices. And that’s the value.
- Jensson 5y agoThe problem is when people who care about justice harasses co-workers because those co-workers doesn't care as much about justice. That has a very negative effect on those co-workers regardless if this has a negative effect on the harasser.
- philosopher1234 5y agoOr: it has the positive effect of changing their minds, and improving the world.
- proxyon 5y agoYou can't actually believe that harassing and stressing out one's coworkers over a political agenda has a positive effect, changes minds and improves the world.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThe art of influencing people.
- sagichmal 5y agoI'm not sure why you think people who care about justice harass coworkers as a matter of course. It's strictly the opposite, in my (considerable) experience.
- krrrh 5y agoYou’re right, a lot of people also know that the biggest impact then can have is participating in their local community and not by joining in on shallow sloganeering. And there’s another more pernicious problem. People can care deeply about justice but have very different views on how to achieve it. It takes more than a lifetime to sort some of these issues out, and anyone with a bit of maturity has had their mind changed enough to have a bit of humility and know it’s not something you can or should do at or through work. The problem with the sort of political activism that passes for personality these days (not limited to one side) is that it conflates bromides that everyone basically agrees with with specific contentious policy prescriptions on which there is little agreement.
- Zababa 5y agoYou're assuming that everyone that think about things systemically end up with the same views. I don't think that's true.
- blitzar 5y agoIn my considerable experience, I have seen true outliers on both sides of the specturm; truly high perfomers to total fuckwits. There is 0 correlation.
- native_samples 5y agoBrian disagrees, he opened his discussion of the benefits by saying: "it has allowed us to hire some of the best talent from organizations where employees are fed up with politics, infighting, and distraction".
- sagichmal 5y agoThis is definitely not true (shrug) Attrition has more than doubled and most engineering teams are critically understaffed.
- native_samples 5y agoThat claim isn't the opposite of his, though. Regardless, if I recall correctly Coinbase paid people generously to leave if they disagreed! Pretty hard not to increase attrition with a policy like that.