20.11.19

...and not Gilligan's Island, either

Special K: https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-ends-its-culture-of-openness

b1-66er: Yeah, i saw this.
What's your take?

K: Sad but inevitable. Growth kills intimacy. Companies and other ongoing projects usually become self-parodies.

b1: Yes.
Americans are particularly bad about not understanding the responsibilities of freedom.

K: I give G credit for preserving the big meeting for as long as it did. But then the company grew too fast, hiring standards dropped, and much has gone to shit.

b1: Yessir.
Of all the people i know, YOU live Animal Farm.

K: Momma K and I were discussing recently, which dystopia would you choose to live in? Brave New World, Rollerball, Logan's Run, Hunger Games, other? Presumably not 1984.