Jonathan Blow

Real journalism would ask questions, like, why did it take you 6-18 months to do basically nothing except adjust spacing in an obviously negative way?

The fact that nobody even remarks upon this kind of thing, in fact everyone expects it, is a sign of how crazy bad productivity is in our “tech” companies and yet nobody sees this. It is straight-up crazy.

Very low productivity seems to be a surprising fact of the contemporary economy as a whole. Job descriptions and perceptions have in the service of patronage taken on a life of their own, quite divorced from actual production.