I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

http://www.fastcompany.com/3016938/dialed/why-i-left-google

by jbae29 • 13 years ago

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johansch• 13 years ago

I am kind of tired of reading stories of people who have left Google to launch fantastical enterprise X. And this particular story has been covered here before, I think.

minimax• 13 years ago

You're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.

harrytuttle2• 13 years ago

Antidote:

I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)

bgar• 13 years ago

What is up with websites placing giant images above articles? The main content is the text, and while the image is nice, I want to be able to read, not look at the picture.

svachalek• 13 years ago

I don't know about this particular case but A-B tests often lead to this sort of thing (large images seem to really pull people in). We are moving into a world where software evolves into a niche. It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.

PavlovsCat• 13 years ago

It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.

It also gets happily stuck and dies in a local optimum, being the simplicistic algorithm it is. We are moving (further) into a world where people stand for nothing, have no thoughts worth mentioning, and would do anything for money no matter how and where from; maybe we don't need to understand that, but it's pretty hard to unsee once you did.

kingnight• 13 years ago

This one seems pointless, but a lot of time it adds context. Like in a magazine, readers connect with an image and then the digest of the text comes easier.

jivid• 13 years ago

Does it bother anybody else that 'back' and 'up' are used as antonyms here?

rza• 13 years ago

Would she have the same success if she didn't have Google on her resume? I frequently think about jumping ship, but sometimes I wonder if it won't turn out as well as these kind of stories suggest.

ef4• 13 years ago

Whenever somebody says "why would you quit such an awesome job?", they have it backwards.

The better the job, the easier it is to quit and take a risk on something new, because (1) you tend to have more savings and (2) you are demonstrably capable of get another good job if you need to.

yanotherlogin• 13 years ago

I'd like to ask why I get dumped to some shitty article I didn't ask for: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016456/this-note-taking-system-...

I get a "301 Moved Permanently".. wtf

So instead: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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