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Assuming the author is familiar with the tech industry, this author seems to be engaging in dishonest arguments to portray tech as "bullshit". The writing is su
by j7ake 3y ago
Assuming the author is familiar with the tech industry, this author seems to be engaging in dishonest arguments to portray tech as "bullshit". The writing is subtle to avoid interpreting the 6-hour focused work survey, but writes so that a person unfamiliar with tech would interpret the data as if 6-hour focused work is low.
A person familiar with tech work would interpret 6-hour focused work to be not bullshit, but the author deliberately does not put the survey results into context.
I also disagree with the author here about "bullshit projects".
By listing the number of killed projects by Google, the author was trying to portray these projects as "bullshit".
But when one wants to innovate, it is not about how many projects get killed, but the quality of the projects that do succeed.
It would be like dismissing Edison's work as bullshit because he went through a brute-force approach to developing an incandescent lightbulb.
- mianos 3y agoThe quality of projects that succeed is pretty odd considering youtube music.
- gniv 3y agoExactly my feelings too. The reality of tech, especially big tech, is much more mundane. The vast majority of engineers work on maintaining and (slowly) upgrading the products that we use every day -- search, mail, maps, video. Each of these have thousands of engs that work on stable projects -- not wildly innovative, but not bullshit either.