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"Jeff Dean, now Alphabet's chief scientist, personally stopped by the room that day to check in on the progress, helping boost morale, and further emphasizing t
by readthenotes1 2y ago
"Jeff Dean, now Alphabet's chief scientist, personally stopped by the room that day to check in on the progress, helping boost morale, and further emphasizing the critical nature of the project."
That is such a cringy, fearful, statement...
- shiroiushi 2y agoSounds like an instance of seagull management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management
- beachy 2y agoA bit like "performing the routine heroics needed to keep Google’s source control server alive". Though perhaps I lack perspective, having just toured Normandy where the D Day landings took place.
- DrBazza 2y agoAlso, heroism isn't routine.
- underdeserver 2y agoWhy?
- DEADMINCE 2y agoJeff?
- underdeserver 2y agoJeff always seemed to me like a good guy with positive energy.
- blitzar 2y agoIf true, huge red flag for the organisation. Written by Google PR - so probably not true.
- gremlinExtra 2y agoAre you implying graphite.dev is somehow affiliated with Google's PR team?
- blitzar 2y agoHow do you think outsiders get access to insiders to write articles about what happened behind closed doors at large corporations? Affiliated with, no. Unless the author was there, just made everything up or sourced the details via 3rd party reporting (or as is the case in the opening line - via google published papers/press releases) then yes google PR personel would have been involved.
- Jensson 2y agoWhat makes it fearful? I read that as they were happy that they would likely to get promoted if the project went well since it had attention from higher ups, how is that something to fear? Google never fired people at that point in time, nobody had anything to fear.