The commenter is referring to the following talk by the same author as the document: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Slime

The commenter is referring to the following talk by the same author as the document: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Slime molds are a type of organism that can expand quickly as each entity within the mold is independent. As a result, the mold as a whole can resist any one actor being removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold The analogy used by the talk is that a slime mold is the polar opposite of a top-down control hierarchy although I haven't read the whole talk (yet) Anyway, the commenter is saying that Google (like a lot of tech companies) is comparable to a slime mold in that it's greatly distributed causing it to be closer to "messy and uncontrollable". In the same breath however, the author of the document is part of said mold acting in their own capacity. By definition, they can't speak for the entire organisation (or necessarily even observe it) because well, it's a slime mold.