Believe me I understand the degree to which there are shades-of-grey here because of the nature of the industry, the fluidity where previous employers are future customers, etc etc etc, but you do not want to plant a landmine deep in your corporate history.
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(This is particularly insidious failure mode because it only matters if you're successful but in the case where you are successful and it matters it *matters quite a bit*.)
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Additional public service message from the former Japanese salaryman: If you tell an employee of X something which is compromising to your interests, the likelihood of X learning that goes up with the severity of how bad of an ideal it was to tell them.
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This is particularly true if e.g. you just involved the employee of X in a crime and that employee has a legal obligation to report crimes and to not tell criminals they are reporting. Among many, many other ways for that to not work out well for you.
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I always think of the Silicon Valley episode where Richard did some work on Pied Piper on a Hooli owned machine. Ever since, whenever I have an idea, no matter how small, to hack on I always reach for my personal computer after hours.
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Plus some employment contracts are so onerous that they practically own any idea you talk about during work hours.
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On this topic: I'm always blown away when I see technically competent people with deeply integrated social accounts signed into work machines. e.g. Adding an Apple ID to a work computer to get personal iMessage support.
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At my last couple day jobs, I literally kept two laptops on my desk on either side of my monitor. Left laptop was personal. Right laptop was work. I never so much as went to gmail dot com on the work machine.
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This line seems to blur even more with phones, no? Slack for work on the phone + texting a friend.
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