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Google is like a car collector that acquires Lamborghinis, McLarens, and Porches, only to keep them in a parking garage... waiting for their 1 lap around the track, once per year. The world needs more Xooglers.

Any thoughts on whether the nature of the beast can, in fact, be overcome? Also, despite the big Corp-Tech sounding like a gigantic mess of misaligned incentives gone haywire, it does continue to be a money-printing juggernaut. Is it only a matter of time before this ends?

I believe Google is a money printing juggernaut despite the gigantic mess, not because of it. The extraordinary profitability of their underlying business gives them room to be inefficient. It's not a coincidence that the employees sound like spoiled rich kids.

Hacker News comments were something like: "whoa this guy sounds toxic af to work for" or "whoa this guy wants to pay his employees zero while he makes all the money" or "dude wants to grind all his employees to dust and drop them the minute its inconvenient" Are they wrong?

Great, HN comments following me to Twitter. This is like the scene at the end of a horror movie where it seems like the main character has finally escaped from the monster, when suddenly...

oof, wants people to work weekends for a second class mapping app when employees have no upside like equity anymore for working that much, it's not SpaceX or a wartime military lol, SV apps need to face reality that they aren't that important to pressure people from having a life

I agree that Google is bureaucratic and can be entitled and slow things down, but the number of paragraphs this guy spends on how entitled his employees are for not caring about a map with their entire being is very offputting