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That was a lot of words. My takeaways: * Try not to sweat the culture war, if you focus on doing your thing (even if it has to be your own thing) it has bette
by dijit 3y ago
That was a lot of words.
My takeaways:
* Try not to sweat the culture war, if you focus on doing your thing (even if it has to be your own thing) it has better output than complaining.
* The author really likes Brendan Eich.
I think the first point has a lot of value, by fighting people on opinion you risk sinking into a tar pit and draining all of your creative energy.
If we are on the subject of “the culture war”, I see things as slightly different. I used to be part of a very left leaning (even for Sweden) Ubisoft studio, and inaction towards their political ideology or statements was considered “violence”- I was stunned at the time.
Later I would learn about the thought experiment “Rokos Baselisk”[0]; and I thought it mapped quite cleanly to my situation.
Small companies tend to have a lot less time for external politics, but its definitely something that can be tricky to navigate in larger groups, does anyone else have this experience or disagree?
[0]: https://youtu.be/ut-zGHLAVLI?si=Vz88W38eZCiOWO-h https://youtu.be/ut-zGHLAVLI?si=Vz88W38eZCiOWO-h