But I feel like some people care about this far more than I can understand, and the news cycle on this is quite protracted. People die in stupid ways every day and this doesn't seem more egregious than most.
And rightly so - one can derive lessons on organizational culture and risk management from such incidents that are applicable to one's own life and career.
I mean its a fact. They were rejected by the traditional VCs.
> since nobody believes they'd have disowned her if she had succeeded
I mean why would they? VCs always talk about companies they could have gotten in early and didn't.
If Theranos was actually successful, then there would be no reason to 'disown' her.
> and those very same VCs got rugpulled with FTX not that long after making all those confident assertions look very silly in hindsight.
What confident assertions?
I don't get what they have to do with each other. Getting FTX wrong (if they did) has nothing to do if they got Tharanos right.
Five people died in an unprecedented fashion due to a rich con artist sending maliciously incompetent engineering to the bottom of the ocean. Stretch a bit, please.
[1] https://www.theonion.com/critics-say-submersible-should-ve-b...
However as time goes on and the articles are STILL ongoing, after as you say the 15 minutes of fame, I have to agree that at this point in time any writer still writing about this is worthy of an eye-roll in the other direction.
While it was news it was worth covering. Now, if you're a journalist and you're still covering it, then I do think you're a piece of **.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/world/europe/titan-sub-gr...)
I hold the opposite opinion. I think that covering it when everyone else was covering it would have been a waste of time because there is only limited information out there. Covering it 2 weeks or months later is much better and more information will have emerged and you can weave a narrative to tell the story better than some AI-written articles that just repeat the same 3 sentences from the Coast Guard.
We are nit goldfish. We have memories. Tell us about how investigation continues - whether in this case or others.
There’s no mystery, no doubt, only pain. This sub failing, well, the pain is self induced so it’s hard to feel concerned, and it’s a mystery (not a big one, ok). It’s light news.
So both have their place. They don’t have the same impact, and well, let’s hope both will be solved… faster for the migrant problem though!
If there's something interesting in the conclusion of the story why get so hot and bothered if someone reports on it? Your reaction is strange to a story that many found interesting and may have follow up details.
It's a pretty interesting case study on safety culture. Dying in a stupid way is often preventable, and yet we just accept it, for probably some of the same reasons Rush did.