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I boosted @GinnyMcQueen's toot about this earlier, but Yonatan's response to the Google manifesto deserves a non-CW toot. I know and trust Yonatan and there is substantial wisdom here. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
@noelle @GinnyMcQueen 🙇 thanks for sharing, this is wonderful
RE point # 2: as a young engineer, i had an anger problem, always on defense. clients asked for changes and i would be mad. my boss would ask for updates and i would be mad. i was so fucking convinced that programming was about me + computers and not me + other people + eventually computers.
this is the shit that needs to be taught early in tech; if you can't deal with other humans you can't do this work
@GinnyMcQueen @noelle and my job is so much more rewarding now that i spend time working with my coworkers and thinking about what actually solves problems. at this point in life, the tech isn't even the interesting part anymore 🤷
a big part of why i took the job i did and moved my whole life was because it was a company with a super empathetic environment and lots of fucking amazing people to work with
uhhh i guess TL;DR yes this post is right