I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why.

http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/last-post/

by jsherry • 15 years ago

16 10 15 years ago

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whenisayUH5• 15 years ago

Paul Carr - nice bitch move with this post.

An amazingly, phenomenally unprofessional, douche-baggy way to leave a job.

TechCrunch was his employer and paid his bills and does of the colleagues he supposedly cares about.

What a self-important fuckhead.

whenisayUH5• 15 years ago

So everyone downvoting me agrees with what Paul Carr did and disagrees with my sentiment OR just finds my choice of language offensive?

Genuinely curious as I'm a newbie to HN.

grovulent2• 15 years ago

I haven't downvoted you - but see my post above as to why I'm sorely tempted.

I guess I'm just curious why folks need to express opinions like these about stuff they really don't know that much about. Obviously people DO express such opinions... and will continue to... but it doesn't aid you any to do so. Just costs you time and energy.

grovulent2• 15 years ago

Why is everything surrounding what Arrington is or does such an ego fest between parties?

And why are we all so interested in it? Like - I mean... I want to think about this in a critical way, I don't just mean to dump on the community for gas bagging about this over and over. I am just genuinely confused as to why Arrington's latest ego brawl is always front page... everyone always has an opinion. No consensus over the rightness of Arrington's ego orientation is ever achieved.

It's clearly fruitless effort... so then what psychological need are we all satisfying here? Sincere question.

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edit:

Just to add a possible theory in answer. Back in the day small groups would be organised leader type folks who probably bested the rest in combat or whatever. Meanwhile there would be various individuals in the group seeking to rise in the pecking order and would be busy acquiring alliances and whatnot. The public dispositions of these leader type folks would be the fodder of much speculation in the group - and it would be important for people to signal their allegiance or lack of it to either help maintain the leadership position as it is currently occupied, or undermine it - depending on what alliances you had entered into (or wanted to break).

This is exactly what's going on at techcrunch... and happens in organisations ALL the time - everywhere. But what's new is that the internet allows these brawls to be publicly broadcast. People jump in for and against the various players on forums like HN because that's the evolutionary legacy we were equipped with.

But what's interesting is that for most of us - this is now wasted energy. Before there was potential for profit if you played the game well enough - insofar as you secured your position in the group or improved it. Now - we expend these energies outwardly toward groups to which we have no access - nor reciprocation.

It would be interesting to know how people who have these urges to engage in these types of discussions online are negatively impacting their own social success within the groups to which they do have genuine access...

andrewcooke2• 15 years ago

"totally devoid of hap". it is worth reading to page 3 just for that.

and having finished: i find tc dramatics to be entertaining fluff, normally, but that was pretty awesome and heartfelt. good luck pc.

whenisayUH5• 15 years ago

A hatchet job on a colleague, even one you don't like, on a public blog is awesome and heartfelt?

andrewcooke2• 15 years ago

i thought so. did you read it? have you followed tc regularly? we're not talking about one person going rogue amongst an otherwise polite and self-effacing bunch of perfectly behaved people...

brackin• 15 years ago

Erick's reply: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/paul-i-accept-your-resignat...

I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why.

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