u/Yourza wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
is there a pattern in your life of limitless energy to pursue those who've slighted you? it's actually nice to gain some insight into the mind of the type of engineer with great technical skills and a completely inability to let go of feeling wronged. i've worked with a dozen of
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I'm not a Peter Thiel supporter (and not a not-supporter either, just centrist) but Gawker is no more after they slighted him.
I can't speak for others but for me it's not personal in any ways whatsoever. I could pick up the phone and have a conversation with Will Sentance anytime.
This might sound crazy grandiose but I don't need to work for the rest of my life so I do what I do out of a deep belief that humanity will better if each person is contributing (work or otherwise) to humanity doing what they are both passionate about and good at. So people doing jobs that they don't like drive me to figure out how that person can move to a place where both THEY are happier AND they are contributing more to humanity.
If you have a scam product and scam marketing that bothers me a lot less.
When you have a pretty good, mediocre product like Codesmith has that refuses to see how it can be BETTER and make HUMANITY BETTER and instead focuses on tricks, marketing, bullshit to promote what they have as 'best in the industry'.
They had something that could have 10X impact on humanity and it was having 2X and instead of trying to put egos aside and get to the 10X, they threw it in the garbage and imploded.
All the HR problems, diligence, half-asses operations issues internally they defended instead of fixing.
All of the problems with crappy projects that modern AI review thinks are garbage fake projects they did nothing about.
That is what's infuriating - that they threw away all their potential and publicly blamed ME.
If they just threw away their potential, fine, I would not be upset.
Instead, they threw it away and failed and then blamed ME - and that's where it crosses the line because this whole time, my feedback was meant to help them improve to be what they COULD be.