I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why.

And why are we all so interested in it? Like - I mean... I want to think about this in a critical way, I don't just mean to dump on the community for gas bagging about this over and over. I am just genuinely confused as to why Arrington's latest ego brawl is always front page... everyone always has an opinion. No consensus over the rightness of Arrington's ego orientation is ever achieved.

It's clearly fruitless effort... so then what psychological need are we all satisfying here? Sincere question.

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Just to add a possible theory in answer. Back in the day small groups would be organised leader type folks who probably bested the rest in combat or whatever. Meanwhile there would be various individuals in the group seeking to rise in the pecking order and would be busy acquiring alliances and whatnot. The public dispositions of these leader type folks would be the fodder of much speculation in the group - and it would be important for people to signal their allegiance or lack of it to either help maintain the leadership position as it is currently occupied, or undermine it - depending on what alliances you had entered into (or wanted to break).

This is exactly what's going on at techcrunch... and happens in organisations ALL the time - everywhere. But what's new is that the internet allows these brawls to be publicly broadcast. People jump in for and against the various players on forums like HN because that's the evolutionary legacy we were equipped with.

But what's interesting is that for most of us - this is now wasted energy. Before there was potential for profit if you played the game well enough - insofar as you secured your position in the group or improved it. Now - we expend these energies outwardly toward groups to which we have no access - nor reciprocation.

It would be interesting to know how people who have these urges to engage in these types of discussions online are negatively impacting their own social success within the groups to which they do have genuine access...

and having finished: i find tc dramatics to be entertaining fluff, normally, but that was pretty awesome and heartfelt. good luck pc.

An amazingly, phenomenally unprofessional, douche-baggy way to leave a job.

TechCrunch was his employer and paid his bills and does of the colleagues he supposedly cares about.

What a self-important fuckhead.