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).
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).