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I like the idea of his newsletter (engineer turned journalist) but it often falls short of expectations for the reason you mentioned: Overselling his own experi

I like the idea of his newsletter (engineer turned journalist) but it often falls short of expectations for the reason you mentioned: Overselling his own experience and exaggerating the sourcing of his information. Most of his Big Tech reporting reduces to “I asked someone who worked at this company and they said this”. He even had to retract a big claim recently because it turned out to be entirely untrue. His newsletter makes more sense when you read about how he considers it his most successful business after a long string of startups that didn’t work out. He’s basically growth hacking his way to more subscribers with every trick in the book.

rtpg 4y ago
Hate to break it to you but almost all journalism is “we asked some people questions” I don’t know what claim you mention, but his newsletter goes into lots of details, is open about how this is just what he is hearing from people, etc. I don’t know what major claim you’re talking about though, but I do get your point about the business angle. Tho honestly I would not trust any SVP at a company like Uber to have an understanding of what it’s actually like to be an IC, or PM level. Hearing what people at that level are thinking is way more valuable to me.