Watching friends who are great human beings get swallowed by devoting their time to soulless big corporations.
Something really sad happening right now: I'm watching friends who are great human beings full of life, ideas, skills, and passions, get absolutely swallowed by devoting their time to soulless big corporations where their uniqueness is not valued. My friend, you are a whole ass human being. Do you really want to spend your 23rd year of life supposedly optimising the culture or a bank that would run exactly the same way if you weren't there? If I wanna fry my brain, I can think of at least a dozen better ways to do it than to stare at shitty internal communication tools for 80% of my awake time. Reading " Bullshit jobs " a few years ago was excellent because I swore that I'd never put myself or others in that position. If my life is to continue down this path, I'll be a CEO for along time because I love to get people together and build stuff. If any of the people I look out for ever feel like their brains are rotting away because of what they are paid to do, t...