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I've been saying this on twitter for months now. I don't believe this is a mentally healthy individual. His continued defence of his behavior with the whole "if you knew what was happening you would understand" style responses indicates he's lost in the sauce.

If he's not having some sort of mental health crisis it really begs to question how we got here with someone like him running those organizations for this long.

If he is, and he makes it out of this state, I feel for the emotions he's going to have to deal with when he sees (with a different perspective) what he's done to what is ultimately his life's work.

It's sad. All the way around, truly just sad.

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I thought that too until you go down the rabbit hole and realize it's been this way since apparently the beginning. It's also interesting to note just how hard everyone was tearing the author apart in the comments only for it to basically become true a decade later.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110117190122/http://wpblogger....

I guess money is just some force multiplier for negative aspects of someone's personality. Just never get to see it in the beginning.

That guy was right predicting conflicts. The comments on that post are something.

I think the conflict of interest is obvious, but most people did not know about it. I think it is so glaring that I would have assumed it would not have been set up like this.

> guess money is just some force multiplier for negative aspects of someone's personality.

I think there is an element of seeing himself as the good guy and therefore entitled to things as a reward.

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity.”

That’s a brilliant snapshot. Thanks for sharing. It also really shows the value of things like archive.org — this context would otherwise be lost if a site disappears.

It’s also inspiring to see how Ben handled most of the comments/criticism.

Thank you for the "direct link to the bottom of the rabbit hole". This article makes the point clearly and succinctly.

And supposedly Matt tried to get him fired for this post!

>TLDR. In May 2010 Ben Cook wrote a post titled Why Matt should resign. [..] The post, a well-balanced, well-argued, and respectful post, was not liked by Mr. Mullenweg, who reached out to Ben Cook’s employer, Network Solutions, and tried to get Ben Cook fired. Network Solutions did not fire Ben Cook.

Why? Because THAT POST "borders on hate speech"

https://kindness.is/examples/2010/mullenweg-the-coward/

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