[KaiserPro]

I can assure you its not clickbait.

Fowler's post created ripples, at least in tech. It was a brilliant exposition of how not to run a company. Bullying happens in every company, what makes a company special is how you deal with it.

Uber dealt with bullying by pampering its odious alpha-shits and creating a structure around them that legitimised and encouraged it, in the guise of "culture".

Musk, Bezos xi et al, are uber rich engineers. Most moderatly intelligent people with >60 billion can change the world. Getting there in the first place is the hard part.

writing honestly about an abuse of power, knowing that it will most likley end your career and result in more persecution, takes a fuck tonne more courage than ordering a bunch of top people in thier fields to build a rocket/shopping empire.

in terms of impact, a nobody unseated Kalanick, something the US legal system never managed to do, despite his companies many legal transgressions.

[Gargoyle]

>Fowler's post created ripples, at least in tech.

Has it, though? I see giant names in Hollywood go down. Senators in DC. I'm not seeing tech figures, though.

I saw Uber do the very definition of a classic ass-covering report.

Is silicon valley really cleaning house?

[edanm]

For what it's worth, I remember there were several high profile VCs accused of harassment, with several of them resigning or being pushed out. Scoble was also accused.

So yeah, I think tech is changing for the better.

[jubalfh]

Nope; and it's not going to until someone forces the issue externally.

[dsfyu404ed]

>writing honestly about an abuse of power, knowing that it will most likley end your career and result in more persecution, takes a fuck tonne more courage than ordering a bunch of top people in thier fields to build a rocket/shopping empire.

If you grow up with little to lose it's hard to un-learn that.

African Americans have a particularly eloquent way of describing that behavior but it isn't appropriate to repeat here.

You don't notice most of the time when someone rage-quits their job for moral/ethics reasons because usually it doesn't lead so something like this.