* Things could be worse * Everywhere it's the same * Someone's good time management is someone else's bad time management * The worst behaved wins - be the rhinoceros you wish to see in the world * It doesn't matter what you do, it matter what your bosses boss thinks you do * It is very likely that hiring and headcount is the only thing your boss cares about * We should stop giving RSU grants for people below <insert level> * Everyone can write code, I could easily write a million lines of code if I wanted to * It doesn't matter if you do not get a promotion, you aren't going to take this money with you when you reach heaven < some story about judas and jesus that i did not understand > * If you embarrass me in a meeting, remember that you aren't going to be present when your promotion packet comes up for review * We follow the best development practices - but we also have 3 dozen AWS accounts and manually generated security credentials we message each other in slack * etc etc etc
The least troublesome part was delivering - the hardest was accepting that US work culture confuses leverage for intelligence