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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      8/ Over last 400 yrs, such exit options have proliferated. Serfs for example, had a once-in-3-generations chances to exit by revolt

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      9/ Today, you're likely to have 10-13 jobs/3-4 careers in a lifetime. And 4-5 project-level exit opportunities within each job.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      10/ We've gone from 0.3 exits/lifetime to something like 30-40. Each exit "solves" an impossible management problem and improves things.

      2 replies 4 retweets 16 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      11/ Managers are really stewards of pent-up emotional baggage and containers of pending explosions between stress-relieving exit events

      2 replies 9 retweets 19 likes
    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      12/ Unfortunately, the exit option is MOST available to the MOST critical linchpin people with high demand elsewhere

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      13/ This means exits often "solves" a critical people-problem by creating a new "talent" problem. Deadwood that won't be missed won't leave.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      14/ But net, this exit-centric way of optimizing net allocation of people at all levels from workgroup to national economy is a good thing

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      15/ One reason I have an issue with the "mercenary versus missionary" ideological schism in tech is that it tries to force "local" solutions

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      16/ "The free market allocates things efficiently","labor immobility through cargo-cult loyalty norms/missions is a good thing"

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      17/ "We want you to believe in this, do great work w/great people", "here are stock options to make it hard to form that belief honestly"

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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      18/ This deep-seated contradiction is "resolved" via cute Jungian projection: hating on "mercenaries" as cynical, disloyal, selfish people

      11:03 AM - 4 Jan 2016
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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          19/ And also via a culture of "pretending to care, pretending to agree"http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/20/pretending-to-care-pretending-to-agree/ …

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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          20/ And perhaps most tellingly, in SV's dislike of lifestyle biz people who participate in digi-future w/o lip service to "mission" culture

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
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        2. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 4 Jan 2016
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          @vgr Jung, really? (It's an OK analogy, but you might as well use tarot as Jung for predictive understanding.)

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2016
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          @davidmanheim JUNG IS GOD! 😀

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