Yesterday's news story about Google telling its employee that he cannot be a Microsoft MVP (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/google_microsoft_mvp http://

Yesterday's news story about Google telling its employee that he cannot be a Microsoft MVP (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/google_microsoft_mvp http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/google_microsoft_mvp) reminded me of Paul Graham's http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html essay where he talks about "What's so unnatural about working for a big company?"