It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google
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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.
It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.
There's some good points in this article about how launching products irresponsibly has weakened Google's overall portfolio and eroded customer trust.
But there's a whole of of weird anti-worker vibes in here too. Overall I really don't think the problem with trillion dollar mega corporations is that people don't work enough dedicated hours.
Launching or Killing?
I don't think launching is an issue. It's the sheer number of products they kill off.
It's becoming comical how many times they've killed and relaunched Google Chat.
They've become incredibly unreliable.
It's not that people don't work enough but when companies close in on monopolies there is less pressure to grab market and when companies with high stock prices offer stocks, there is bound to be some relaxation when you find out your stocks have inflated like a large Christmas bonus. There's not much you can do about it is the thing. Every company does it's best when competitive and the problems occur during stagnation at the top.
This seems like it was written by a very bitter and jealous ex-google employee.
It's all true, but the experimental and failure cycle isn't a bad thing. It's just how you innovate.
Ex-Microsoft as it says at the bottom.
Did you read the whole article? I feel like they explain why this innovation doesn't work.
They explained why they hated innovating that way.
I've never thought of platform profits as rents but it actually makes a lot of sense.
I can definitely see the idea in my own work. If I stop working, it's not like revenue will go down. At least not right away. In that sense, my work is "unproductive".
I do think stronger regulation is the most viable way forward. I don't think these monopolies will break themselves.