there's a weird sensation of knowing that some acquaintance of yours works for a major platform and being able to understand the particular sickness that company currently has within its product/design/engineering organization. It's like sonar but for job safety, being able to sense where you might fit in
could you camouflage yourself in the kind of enthusiastic you have to be at Mozilla right now about local-first LLMs, the new P2P web? Could you submit to Benioff and try to find the "next act" for Slack, reclaiming the product for the query-minded data detective? Maybe you genuinely believe that Etsy has a chance to confront the "late-stage dropship moment"? that Spotify could do a face turn and create a utopian post-Bandcamp moment for independent musicians? that joining Devolver Games' newly founded R&D team to help bring itch.io on board to their data platform is a "win"? Riot Games is ready for Act III and you're the architect of its next-generation client's backend service mesh? oh, you're part of the exclusive team that gets to build Conde Naste's first post-Pitchfork music vertical?
How lucky you are! I regret to inform you, however, that 401(k) matches are not available 😞 if we realize the level of ambition we are building towards, maybe that'll be something we can offer to everyone, in an equitable way
