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She Believed Big Tech Could Change the World. Just Not for the Worse.
- mitchbob 2mo ago> In "Don't Be Evil," Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry. https://archive.ph/MP5CV https://archive.ph/MP5CV
- Grombobulous 2mo agoThe whole problem with the “don’t be evil” motto in the first place is that a normal well-adjusted person doesn’t have to remind themselves of a slogan like that. The fact that the slogan ever existed is revealing. I have mixed feelings about her story in particular but I do feel bad for her on some level. I can understand how a lot of people who join companies during their impressionable years have gained unhealthy relationships with those companies that has come back to harm them.
- lokar 2mo agoThe origin of the motto was an engineer simplifying a list of more specific things.