Yeah. I turned down an offer to go to Facebook in the early days because their product wasn’t something I wanted in the world. Have turned it down again more re

Yeah. I turned down an offer to go to Facebook in the early days because their product wasn’t something I wanted in the world. Have turned it down again more recently because I now realize Facebook is social cancer. I shared this with a recruiter and thankfully he put me on the “never ever” list. I wish I’d known that list existed years ago. I turned down an interview at DHS building a massive database of repeat migrant border crossing. Migrants come here and pick our strawberries, then send money home and fund their children’s educations. Sure laws need to exist, and illegal crossing violates the law… but come on. Can’t say I support using tech to make their lives even harder, especially since they do really hard work to literally feed us. I’m happy letting DHS remain low-tech and largely ineffectual. Nobody who is smart enough to get important things done should apply those smarts to something that makes the world less humane or more unpleasant. And by god, never work on terrible weapons. Turned down an opportunity to build a really neat high volume high speed data storage system at Apple because their product design arrogance annoys me and I consider their repeated removal of awesome features a betrayal of me personally and user centric design in general. Quit a lucrative contract gig because their inability to prioritize information security was begging for a massive breach and I wanted nothing to do with fallout. You might be justified in wondering how I can work anywhere;-) turns out there are plenty of places not actively making the world worse.