Look! Design is fantastic. Organizations that take design seriously make products far better than those that don't. We should applaud and defend the companies t

Look! Design is fantastic. Organizations that take design seriously make products far better than those that don't. We should applaud and defend the companies that take it seriously, because they're all that's left in this country between something worthwhile and third world mediocrity. Paul Graham said it best in his New York Times interview last year: >“If there’s not going to be another Google,” Graham said, “then we’re so deeply screwed that we all should be getting bags of silver and shotguns.” Praise God and pass the ammunition, brother. The problems in the startup ecosystem are outside the control of entrepreneurs and employees -- it's related to monetary policy and political dysfunction. Problems in VC, downstream from even larger problems in legacy political structures. That political decisions made free $$$$ available to investors to shove $$$ towards useless products to pay $$ to employees to create such useless products is not the fault of the people at the bottom of that stream. Blaming the little guy is trivial. Blaming the big guys (many of whom have been dead for a century) is not as cathartic or as risk-free.