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Are you insinuating he did the due diligence and ignored it?

Well it does have a 25 year headstart.

And a cooler cover!

I'm describing the problem of already owning books you'd like (love!) to read, but don't make time for them.

I'm also describing that most of us (I posit) already have a great collection of great books, which aren't fully tapped. Honestly, even re-reading your college textbooks will up your level significantly. You don't usually need to seek out the "best of the best" book, unless you're really going deep or want to learn a specific topic in a very particular way.

These reading lists are lovely and promise a Better You, but I'll propose the following challenge:

* If you're at home, turn around and look at the bookshelf you've already accumulated. Did you really read all those books you so looked forward to when you first bought them? Or do you remember all the best bits from your favorite ones? Be honest now... the unbroken spine on your Godel Escher Bach suggests otherwise. Read what you have, before stressing on Kay's or others' lists!

* If you're at work, have you read all the wiki/docs/etc created by your team and neighboring teams? Do you understand the full architecture and implementation of the system you work with every day? Go read that, level up and become the most knowledgeable person on your team.

Most people lack both breadth and depth. So don't worry about going too broad... you probably won't get there.

Pizzagate was fiction and was easily debunked. The fact that there are actually bad people who do actual bad things doesn't suddenly validate made-up stories.

Is the answer: almost nothing?

This certainly looks like it's because they didn't bend the knee.

I feel it's time for boomboxes to come back. Not purple medicine-pill bluetooth players, but big ol' boxes you can put on your shoulder and Fight the Power with 8" speakers. There was a whole movement around playing music out, now we just inject it into our ear canals.

Nostalgia... or genius?

I don't buy it. You're saying you work nearly 10 hours a day, every week and every single day including Saturdays and Sundays, and (per the OP's question) that doesn't include time "not-working" while at work (i.e., chatting, lunch, etc).

People who say they work 60, 70, 80, 100 hours a week are just doing bad math, or including a ton of downtime in there.

Almost every modern reference to "Corporations are now people!" is a callback to Citizens United. If the commenter I replied to is not aware of and was not referring to that, I apologize. But... he probably was. A simple search for "corporation are people" or "corporate personhood" will bring up articles that immediately and extensively focus on Citizens United.

One of the Googleplex buildings was dedicated to G+, and only G+ team was allowed entry, etc. Very different than the rest of Google at the time, which was a proudly-open culture.

Corporations aren't people. You're misrepresenting Citizens United

This reminds me of Wave. Wave team's isolationism didn't cause them to fail, but no one was inclined to help them when they struggled.

But these are symptoms. The Dark Tower was because of Vic, no? Maybe Bradley too, but mostly Vic. Vic was a virus against which Google had no immunity. "Do it my way or your career is over". Well, his direction sucked, and that's what you get when you give full trust and power to the wrong individual.

My very-large project switched chat apps in one weekend (backed by a few weeks of prep by IT team). We had JIRA integration on day one, and one or two missing things within a week. It wasn't that big a deal.

I think Slack aficionados overestimate how much investment most companies have in custom integrations and bots and things that increase switching costs.

Actually, since Facebook is now considered "anti-GOP", I would not be surprised if Republican senators begin investigations into this.

Indeed.

To be less facetious about it, there is some irony in this project being promoted by Google executives, who live in chateaus and mansions in Atherton, Los Altos Hills, Woodside, etc, with an acre of land to their name, when this investment is of course to house the labor that got them those mansions to begin with. The execs who sponsor the housing projects obviously won't sell or give up their own land to make room for the new apartments.

Random Atherton listing on Trulia: https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/atherton/87-patricia-dr-atherton...

That's not the only root cause. It is also trivially easy for Google and other BigCo's to hire from outside the Bay Area (college recruits, etc) and those people move here without a plan of where to live. They arrive and set up in a small apartment and soon discover there's no other housing option, but the job is too lucrative and interesting to leave. Another 1000 follow the next week.

There's a very large area of land directly south of Redwood City with an extremely low housing density, that could be torn down (with some controversy, no doubt) to make way for the new Google housing.

You can easily see the underutilized density on the satellite view, by how green it is compared to surrounding cities:

https://goo.gl/maps/K3i32Rj4yoQ9gcUD6

I can't remember when/if I've ever seen a "toast" UI notification pop up, either on desktop or mobile. Somehow a UI that's very rare, should be in the standard? Esoteric AF.

How do you get poker from that?

I was a long-time winamp user and I've still never found that sweet spot in any new player, of being able to easily queue up albums and always be listening to exactly what I want, in the order I want.

kweks, your comments are fascinating. Thanks for sharing, and I eagerly await more details about the day itself, and progress so far.

To add insult to injury for Uber's rank and file equity-holding employees: the terms of Uber's stock offers (at least since 2016 if not earlier) say that you cannot sell your shares until one year after they officially vest. That's right, they tack on an additional one-year waiting period for each block of shares awarded. So if you had shares that vested today, e.g., you can't sell those even when the regular six-month lockup period expires... you have to wait until May 2020.

(source: turned down offer in 2016 because of employee-unfriendly terms)

According to this article, stock was valued internally at $49/share in 2016, so anyone joining in the last three years will not have enjoyed any sort of rocket-ship growth.

https://news.yahoo.com/uber-employees-may-not-partying-15171...

What kinds of tools?

> Shareholder democracy works

Examples needed.

My problem with it is that there are many scenarios that are fantastic for the founders, but only one (unicorn) that is fantastic for non-founders. You can put in the same long hours, pour your soul into it, take the same risk for years, but if there's an exit event, you'll only be feeding off crumbs while the founders feast on the rewards.

Raise your hands everyone who typed in Eliza clones in the mid-80s and thought you would solve general AI using BASIC in the not-too-distant future.

> MV needs to be a lot denser

Why is this necessary? What requirement is satisfied only by increased density?

I could equally say Google needs to stop growing and start moving projects elsewhere.