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Opinions like this drive me bonkers. The mass movement to remote work wasn't an "experiment" we all "opted into", it was a necessity driven by a global pandemic
by orangechairs 3y ago
Opinions like this drive me bonkers. The mass movement to remote work wasn't an "experiment" we all "opted into", it was a necessity driven by a global pandemic. Putting the narrative on equal plane as "choosing avocado toast" makes my blood boil. We went remote because we had to. We fled cities because we had to. It was our civic duty to "flatten the curve" and save lives. My hat for a bit of nuance and grace.
- bluepizza 3y agoThat's because certain types of CEO feel a need to feel relevant by getting media exposure. They are not the majority. They are a small minority. But these certain types, whenever they feel just a little bit irrelevant, they run to a microphone and start blabbering the most inflammatory statements that they can think of. And then they get the attention they crave. Even if this CEO's opinion was precisely the one that he expressed, it makes no sense at all to express it. Why would he potentially damage his company's standing by making unnecessarily inflammatory statements? What is the benefit for OpenAI from this?
- legitster 3y agoHis full quote: "I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn’t need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity," To give him credit, he was saying something a bit more nuanced it just got chopped up by the headline.
- orangechairs 3y agoThat's completely fair. In pursuit of a headline (and a character count limit), the nuance hit the cutting room floor.