Readit NewsMuch later in life I discovered I was what is called a Sigma male and everything made sense.
I created my own company but was poor for a while(but very happy to do what I wanted). People probably felt sorry for me but I did not care about their opinions.
Very happy now. Not poor anymore.
When Microsoft "lost the mobile war" everybody was in the office still, no? Is it conceivable that google is behind on AI for reasons other than wfh?
You will be surprised how many people that became rich with startups have invested in real state. A lot of those investments are tanking now because of WFH, so they have something personal against it.
>When Microsoft "lost the mobile war" everybody was in the office still, no?
Microsoft lost both "the Internet" and "mobile" because they just could not understand it, like IBM could not understand a world with a computer in every desktop. It is a normal thing when your culture gives you success, the world changes, your culture remains the same.
Other companies appear that understand it and they win. If Google does not adpat, others will.
I would say risk aversion is the biggest problem by far. Google culture is also radically woke. Google is made by PhDs that always wanted to isolate from the world, they had always very weak customer support, everything was automated and had no contact with the customer so they ended isolated from the needs of your customers and lived in their own world.
On one side you see super brilliant people there. On the other you see total disconnection with the needs of the people because they were isolated on purpose.
Google was designed so people could almost live on campus, most of the time. So you could have 30, or 40 year old adults that are actually like children, not taking responsibility for their lives, isolated from the world most people live. How are you supposed to improve the world when you do not have incentives to improve it because you are not feeling the pain?
Your world is totally different from most people's.
This was obvious to me as an outsider. It is difficult to se culture from inside as you get used to it.
The old generation never understands. Science improves one funeral at a time.
I have worked remotely most of my life. We can work harder than anyone else precisely because we do not need to spend one/two hours a day commuting. We can focus without distraction for hours, control our working environment and do the deepest work.
But like anything else, you need to learn how to do it right and it will take decades before traditional companies learn how to do it.
As simple as that. I was looking at the numbers of one of our partners that has gone bankrupt in Europe. He made the brilliant decision to invest everything in Office space just before Covid. They expected to recover money after Covid, but it is not happening.
A lot of big guys invested there, specially politicians, and of course expensive taxes. They will do everything they can to delay the sinking.
I'm open to other ideas, but I have to imagine some of this is due to changes in our environment and food supply. plastics everywhere, pesticides in our food, pollution in the air.
My personal opinion is mandated flame retardants in foams, mattresses and cushions and other plastics. Smokers die less from fire but everybody else breath poison.
Of all the "arguments" used by hired Public Relations companies hired to spin "work from home" in a bad light, this is the most stupid argument I have ever heard.
This makes me uncomfortable as probably because of that it could be the most successful.
It isn't consistent. Different ISPs block different hosts and protocols at different times. I assume we are a kind of test and staging environment for censorship in Russia.
In the interest of anonymity I am not going to respond to your questions.
They have been testing it since then.
In China once their AI systems or whatever decides that you are using a VPN you will be punished by increasingly blocking your Internet for more and more time.
If necessary anyone can be canceled. Everybody is "guilty" but select few are prosecuted.
Therefore the real power belongs to those who decides what issues can be ignored.
In the West there is a long History of institutions(like cities) that went against the abuses of the people in charge. You were a servant, you entered a city(burg) you became free, the city protected you. This happened for centuries. In China something like that happened at specific periods, but eventually the Emperor took all the power.
In China the Emperor or the Tzar in Russia could do anything. In Russia those that wanted freedom lost every single time. If a servant entered a city and the city did not deliver the fugitive, the Tzar will burn the city. The same happened with the Soviets. You want your own food? We will kill you all and send your children and wife to Siberia. Everybody else(not the Emperor) were servant. Now Xi or Putin are the new emperors, like Lenin, Stalin or Mao were.
I have lived in China as a privileged engineer/expatriate.
Basically most people have no idea what a country without rule of law(like China) is.
>If necessary anyone can be canceled. Or you can cancel them. You consider yourself a victim, a nobody, but people can get public and get a million views and could do real damage to those in power.
Anybody that does not want to have toner particles (that are carcinogenic) dust in their houses' air.
I have been hearing in the last week a lot of "Intel is doomed" and I wondered why. Now I Know.