hrefna, 14 days ago

Evidently "real work" is defined as "making enough money that the project doesn't get cancelled" which uh.

So my work is only 'real' if my project isn't cancelled… and who does the cancelling? The same people who you want to keep around. I see.

hrefna, 14 days ago

I recognize that the current party line among VCs is that we're all overstaffed and could be run more efficiently with half the people (c.f., twitter) but every time that is tried in practice it goes… poorly. Because they have absolutely no clue what real work actually looks like.

You would think they would figure it out eventually, but to them it is just an academic exercise in shuffling money around instead of involving tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.