Yesterday I read the excellent article by Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn and this particular anecdote The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits. Here’s danah [...]
Spez seems like the kind of person who can’t see other people’s perspectives, and tends to believe that whatever he believes to be true at any given moment is true, even if he believed the opposite ten minutes ago. People like that can be functional members of society only while there’s someone around who will tell the,m “no,” and when you’re the CEO of a large company, it’s easy to ignore criticism. And also, to hire only people who will suck up to you.