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your links don't disprove OP's main point at all. being forced to share data to the government is different than actively collecting data to sell to other third parties. these companies have tons of incentive to collect user data, but very little to sell it. i think that nuance is important to understand. if you think i'm wrong, try going to facebook or google and asking to buy some user data. you cannot.

It's all about risk/reward tradeoffs. Once you get past the junior->senior level, each promotion is hiring you for a completely different job. As an individual, there are only a few ways to get that job: 1. Trial run at your current company (could be wasting your time, but also you have domain knowledge and relationships to help) 2. Join a smaller company and hope it grows (could rapidly accelerate growth due to needs, but could also go very poorly if the company stagnates) 3. Try to lateral to another company with a promotion (pretty difficult in general)

It's not really that juicy for the corp. If they hire (promote) you without experience, they are hiring someone without experience for a position and then have to go and hire again to replace someone else. Vs. just hiring someone with experience

this can definitely happen, and in weird ways too. i thought my neighbor was playing bass super loud at night, and it was reverberating loud enough in my home so that I couldn't even hear a movie in my living room. when I knocked on his door, I was surprised to hear almost nothing and he had just been cooking dinner with low volume music. he shifted his subwoofer about 3 feet (it wasn't even against the wall) and it completely solved the problem

have you tried the logitech mx keys mini? it's really similar for me

i'm not sure what you mean by "bread and butter" of the fitness industry. certainly most fitness "influences" are on some sort of performance enhancing drug, with many of them on anabolics which is the reason why they look muscular and lean. i'm not sure what fat burners you think are actually more dangerous than this stuff (clenbuterol? ephedrine?), but I don't agree

they contribute already, but it's more challenging than federal. many residents do not stick around in the state they train in, so states have less incentive to fund this

not really, but private funding is generally pretty controversial with weird incentives (e.g. a company may only fund for positions that will create demand for their products--like a skincare company only funding dermatologists) [1]

don't think many other entities besides the federal government have a ton of incentive to fund residency. and the federal government does have caps on residency slots

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2005/06/private-funding-for-res...

china is on a similar path, maybe even worse. hard to make people have more children, even harder if you have a history of actively stopping people from having children

your opinion of doctors is probably off. i'm married to a doctor (in the US) and i would say 4/5 doctors i meet spend most of their time talking and thinking about money. there are lots of reasons for this (some valid), but assume your doctor has money on the mind

he has nothing to say. his strategy has been to keep riding the gravy train for years. now the growth is slowing and he can see the core search business will be under attack and there is no answer. he'll essentially coast for the next 5 years. play politician, take few risks, "streamline operations" and fire a bunch of people, then walk off into the sunset. what is their future? cloud is still very small and has really difficult competition, youtube has challenging competition and isn't super profitable, maps/search/mail/docs/drive all feel quite stale. what's next?

yeah surprisingly that was ideal for me when I was single. i enjoy the actual physical act of cooking but hate the constant planning/prep/shopping. guaranteeing a few healthy dinners a week that I don't have to plan was pretty nice. unfortunately the meal quality dropped a good bit and the recipes get redundant after a while

i'd still recommend it to anyone who's never cooked before at all and wants to start

it reads like complete corporate garbage but I would assume these are created with

1. a rough organization-level investment prioritization

2. ask the leaders of those organizations to come up with vague mission statements

3. put them together and you get nonsense.

my guess would be the interpreted version is something like "Sundar says this is what we are focusing on"

1. Keeping up with recent AI advancements

2. Making youtube, search, gmail, and drive/docs/calendar better

3. Improving android and related devices

4. Expanding google cloud

5. I have no idea

6. Built a better employee experience

7. Improve devex and reduce operational costs

the only really interesting things I see are

1. AI is at the top

2. monetization is not mentioned

3. efficiency/cost savings are directly mentioned

would be a little concerned if I were a googler. basically AI + existing stuff + reducing costs / operational efficiency

(realizing I made alot of numbered lists here)

if you can get a job, the jobs still pay well. but the availability is SIGNIFICANTLY decreased. so the stanford cs grad can probably get a 100K job straight out of college, while people lower down on the totem pole may be unemployed or taking very low paying jobs. similar to how law is structured

in my experience from the outside it's difficult to separate their rec algorithm quality vs. the quality of their inventory. you're making the assumption they have a ton of great stuff that they're just not showing you, but they may not.

i agree with all of what you said, but i think the main change is just that these companies aren't growing the same way they were pre-pandemic. everything feels resource constrained in a way it didn't in the mid-2010s and this makes everything inherently political and negative

edit: to give an example, you probably don't think at all about an exec's value when you see him once a quarter in an all-hands explaining the great growth and complimenting teams, your paycheck is high and growing, and your team has happy hours, lavish team all hands, and tons of autonomy. when the same exec is announcing layoffs, no growth, and reduced benefits, you start to look at the deal a little differently

for a more expensive alternative to limit smartphone use, i bought an apple watch ultra, turned off notifs, and it cut down my phone screen time down by ~80% pretty much overnight. basically just keep my phone in another room for most of the day and night (watch works great as an alarm clock)

this is really smart

sure but what does "hard to do" entail in terms of timeline? in my experience nothing complex can launch in 3 months at a big corp. 6 months would be aggressive. a year seems the most likely. but where will competitors be in a year?

yeah. the SWE stats sound pretty normal for now. I have heard from friends that product is even worse.

I do wonder a bit whether OP is a little too wishy washy around position in interviews (e.g. coming off as not being sure whether he/she wants to be an engineer vs. product manager). the post even comes off that way a little

i don't see anything being "ripped to shreds". seems mostly the same to me as a casual user. still a toxic place that is still the best for current events. maybe a little more toxic, but it's not like it was great before

as someone from a company that used to use bluejeans, in no way would I say it was better than zoom or even teams. thank god we stopped using it

OP is a project manager. This is different than a product manager (which I think you're referring to) or a program manager. I don't think there are many $100K+ jobs for general project managers. My actual advice would be to switch to one of those other roles

yep. not just uber though, all of the delivery services are like that now

mission is better in some ways and worse in others (lived there through covid). haight and hayes are both fine. fidi is definitely dead and soma is worse. mission/market around 6th-12th is worse than it was pre-covid

or 2/3 of men didn't have real childhood trauma, and picked a partner similar to the strongest feminine relationship they had

it's fairly embarrassing that your suggestion is literally the first sentence in the article

based on experience there could be a bunch of pretty innocuous reasons e.g. 1. some company wide simplification effort on user options 2. some weird coupling of the UI project to the backend project, where this functionality was an edge case that they could postpone til after launch

sure - I agree with this, but I think this goes both ways. I will give a parallel situation that I think about quite a bit: cars. Cars have quite a bit of the same benefits as remote work. You can live further from work, you have independence, and quite a bit of the concrete negatives (e.g. no more crowded public transit) generally go away. But we now know that designing society around cars was a mistake. It ends up being bad for everyone and is more isolating by default. I'm similarly concerned about doing something that will make Americans more isolated by default.

love when commenters are just immediately dismissive of other people's preferences.

I feel the same as OP. I have a very healthy social life outside of work but full time remote work at home feels isolating and repetitive. My mind does not like the lack of separation between home and work and I've tried every trick in the book. This is also true for most other activities in my life (e.g. I don't like exercising at home vs. a gym).

I don't want to force people to the office, but it gets tiring hearing other people assuming I haven't tried their "solutions"

Actually I don't think the author was trying to be super prescriptive. His writing is actually pretty muddled, but the main points I got were:

1. Focusing on your idea of ideal business rather than just running the business can be constraining in a way that kills the company

2. Maybe that's ok, because maybe your team doesn't want to optimize for business at any cost vs. a defined mission

I think some rewrites would have helped with this article