I'm unsure how your comment about external matters relates to the article because none of these were discussed. The criticisms were specifically internal: 1. n

I'm unsure how your comment about external matters relates to the article because none of these were discussed. The criticisms were specifically internal: 1. no mission, 2. no urgency, 3. delusions of exceptionalism, and 4. mismanagement. 1. Never sure which product to work on. Jumping round starting and stopping products without a sense of strategy. 2. Country club mindset where everything moves slowly and people aren't driven. 3. "My way is already perfect, so there's nothing to change." It's typical introvert developer-is-also-the-PM behavior. 4. Managers making technical decisions. These types of signals are typical of end-stage, innovation-dead corporations because I've seen many of them up close and personally. And, I've also have seen the energy of startups and companies that were still ascending.