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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it sure is rough when people use the actions of one to characterize the entire group
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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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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