[raverbashing]

> What's the source of this rot?

People that hide behind procedures and metrics and competition driven by that instead of looking outside the window and seeing if it's rainy or sunny.

MBA heads (which might be unfair here because this is more like engineer clockwork head) that use "products launched" as a metric even if you're actually taking down and launching the same product over and over

G killing "unprofitable" products like Google Reader because it makes sense on paper except that a) it's a minor line item b) they are too analytical to measure the impact on good will and brand "soft power" of the power and c) the existence of the product created demand for RSS producers and it was not simply another reader.