Many Bay Area tech companies are considering mandating everyone WFH this week but don’t want to be publicly first to avoid being seen as panicking, social media derision, etc. Learned behavior after A16z was mocked for a (CDC-recommended) “no handshakes, please” sign.
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Replying to @dwr
tfw listening to tech journalists is literally a risk to your life
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Replying to @micsolana @dwr
it sure is rough when people use the actions of one to characterize the entire group
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Replying to @MikeIsaac @dwr
i don't recall a lot of tech journalists rushing to balaji's defense when their friends were calling him racist for correctly predicting a global pandemic
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Replying to @micsolana @dwr
look, it's easy to spike the ball here ("congrats" to balaji for being right!) imo, the better way to handle this is to be above it, instead of doing the same thing you regularly accuse tech journalists of doing
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i do think balaji is owed something of an acknowledgement (apology?) for being ahead of this but feels like tribalism is not helpful here
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Replying to @MikeIsaac @dwr
agree, but tribalism is what happened *to* him. it's also what helped him weather the media pile on and amplify his message. no one is going to change their behavior until they feel safe, and this media environment (that we all live in now) doesn't feel safe.
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The journalists need to come to terms with their systemic irresponsibility.
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