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by klabb3 1283 days ago
Oh yeah I was assuming we were talking about when he was actually working there. That whole consulting gig felt like a slow quit.

> By his own admission he could have steered things better if he'd been more involved

My reading is that back when he was full time, he was busy with actual product work and coding, and he could have possibly made a difference by going political, but there would have been no guarantee and it would have taken a lot of his time.