Dear blog readers and friends,
I've been asked a couple (hundred) times whether I was considering a return to Google, and people stare in disbelife when I say I'm not interested.
Maybe fake Steve jobs can illustrate why more vividly.
"Dude, we give these idiots free lobster tails for lunch; we do their laundry and cut their hair; we've got pony rides on Tuesday afternoons. And we still can't keep them. What the hell is going on? What do I have to do? Put up gates and guard shacks and those tire shredder things that they use at car rental places? Why is this happening to me?"[…]you make a big deal of only hiring these super-high-IQ kiddies and the fact is that most of them truly are smart, but then you put them into this horribly dull and easy drone work on AdWords and AdSense and they're all bored to tears and totally disappointed because they really really really thought they were going to do something meaningful with their lives and now they're just worker bees — pampered worker bees, sure, but still — and maybe they should have taken that offer from McKinsey but they really thought Google was going to be so cool and blah blah blah.
The whole post is hilarious, and apparently they are hemorraging some serious talent.
Interesting development.
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