That's why ex-BigTech groups are so valuable: not the shared trauma of having seen a great project turn into a corporate frustrating slug, which is often why go

That's why ex-BigTech groups are so valuable: not the shared trauma of having seen a great project turn into a corporate frustrating slug, which is often why good people end up leaving, nor the shared experience of building certain rare, hard-to-appreciate tools, although that one is precious — but as a community of experienced professionals. Some merge into private groups, but they always start as private-by-necessity clusters and rarely pierce that veil. It’s a shame, really.