[barthvr]

I don't see where in the article it is stated that he should fire himself ?

[ionwake]

Reread - look closely - he says he was on the list.

[itsdrewmiller]

You're misreading the article. He put himself on the list of people to optimize, but admitted he is sufficiently biased about his own skills that he wasn't realistically going to end up as one of the cuts.