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> I’m aware that no matter what I write here, I’m going to sound like yet another startup nerd talking about “the future of programming” before announcing that I’ve joined, like, Sri Lanka’s answer to Uber or something.

Hah, shots fired! https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-gra... (Which to be fair was a prescient critique of Google too.)

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> There is no better way to put it. I feel like I’ve joined a literal revolutionary war, surrounded by and fighting alongside guerilla troops, and it’s win or die.

What a load of self-aggrandizing bullshit. How do we keep minting these guys with a completely confabulated sense of perspective?

Hah I hear you, but a charitable way to read it is that this is how he feels after leaving Google's cushy, risk-averse, monopoly-supported comfort zone in the US (which is what the first part focuses on) and being airdropped into the "warzone" of a rapidly growing startup in a fast-paced, competitive environment in a developing country.

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