"Let's think things through before we dive into coding."<p>"'Enterprise' and 'legacy' shouldn't be insults. Those are the systems that actually run our economy."<p>"Microsoft is more innovative than Apple."
I find it so interesting how different "tech" companies and "industrial" companies are from each other (apparently engineers who work in the industry such as OEMs are not really "tech" from what I read in the media, <i>shrug</i>). I worked from startup (that was working on only hardware) to multi-billion "life-style" companies, and I never hangout with my coworkers after work, let alone beer-bashes. I have a coworker who won't even come to free Christmas lunches. It's just expected where we can talk and joke during work, but when it comes to personal time, its personal. Also as a MechE, people tend to listen to you more when you're more experienced (typically older), not the other way around. People I work with understand while dreams are important, it does not feed your family. I really want to get into the software side of things but the culture from what I read is almost repulsive...
Interestingly I agree with these sentences (sans not being 30 yet and not having kids and leaving at precisely 5:30)<p>I want to start a product because I think it'll be useful and I have bills to pay, I concern myself with user privacy first and foremost when designing and I don't want to fall into the trap of doing an "apple design". I don't want to scale either, I want to have a healthy and slow growth, maybe not even grow beyond a point. From a pure business standpoint these things are irrational (except paying bills) but personally I find them important.
Sorry, but it sounds like bunk - out of top 10, I've said most myself and heard others to say it. Well, except the beer bash thing, I must admit - though I have had coworkers that did not drink alcohol (and nobody resented them for that), I didn't really hear anyone claiming beer bash can't be fun. So I guess 1 out of 10 is kinda plausible?
Ironically this is political as well just not civic political but office/work political instead (although really what’s the difference if you think about it? Not much IMO). You can’t have a “Things You Can’t Say” that isn’t political in one way or another. Man is a political animal.