[edholland]

I too reread this sentence a few time to try and understand the message. I think that the author is trying to convey that he believes his work has a positive impact to the "global health" of the internet. Although this may come across of "full of himself" I think that it may be more of a positive mindset view of his work. If we can't convince ourselves of the value of our work then how we will ever convince the world?

I think the world would be a better place if you could all truly be this proud of our work. Is there anything we can do to make a material difference here?

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It sounds like it's just Silicon Valley's "making the world a better place through scalable fault-tolerant payment APIs", except unironically.

[gonehome]

I think it's specifically a play on Stripe's mission statement to "increase the GDP of the internet" so in that light he "works for the internet".

I like his writing, but his miss on that Japan covid thing (linked in threads elsewhere) and his knee-jerk (imo, at least overly general) anti-crypto hostility has caused me to down-rank my prior for him a bit.

That said, if you write a lot publicly you're going to be wrong sometimes. I don't expect people to be perfectly consistent or perfectly correct (I'm certainly not).

I also don't care that brilliant people sometimes come off a little abrasively, it's better imo than pseudo-humble crap. I don't even think it really applies to patio11 who comes across earnest and helpful in his writing and goes out of his way to do good (salary negotiation article is still best source on the net, the vaccine availability thing).