jackalnom

I appreciate the feedback. I once presented a promotion document to a room of Amazon VPs, and the first words uttered were “this is the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever read in my life”. So you are in good company with your critique, although you were much kinder :).

Fwiw, I had no idea other people were posting on hackernews, and certainly didn’t ask anyone to. I’m also not sure why I would do that? I might only add, in the gentlest way possible and only the slightest of irony, that this is exactly the type of assuming wrong intentions the essay is referring to that we all do from time to time.

Cheers, Lucas (author of above blog)

The biggest challenges in my career were never technical; they were human. After two decades in tech leadership at places like Amazon and Snap, I wrote an essay about the tribalism, flawed thinking, and toxic behavior that we learn to tolerate and how to recognize when you're part of the problem.