Good fortune part aside. Why *is* everyone paying so much attention to engineers who just happened to work at a company early on, rather than the large number of persistent and consistent critics who've been researching and pointing out issues for years, with solid track records?https://twitter.com/DanRose999/status/1268294161939042304 …
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Sure, people who work at tech now can provide us with inside information that we don't always have. But the centering of the early engineer or the ex-employee is baffling. They aren't privy to current complexities; they didn't resign in protest; they didn't do years of research.
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In SV there is an unstated yet pervasive ideology that early employees at successful companies are smarter, harder-working, and even more ethical than the rest of us. A new nobility. External criticism is tainted; they're probably just jealous or riding coattails
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Yeah, I heard a lot of that but as inconceivable as it may be to some, lots of people chose not to be employed by those companies. The more valid criticism is that external folks don't always understand how things work inside; but that isn't provided by the very early folks.
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