[cek]

I love Marcello and am a fan, but this is an emotional, not well thought through reaction.

The best leaders, the best organizations, the ones that create excellence, are those that are as good at saying no as they are at saying yes.

I've worked at a large company. It is easy for outsiders to think "oh, they have infinite resources and can do anything". This is not the case at all.

I am not much of a Google fan. I dropped Reader about 2 years ago and have used NewsBlur since. The only Google product I like is Chrome.

Google will continue to be successful, not by doing a bazillion little things poorly, but a few things, really, really well.

And to do a few things, really, really well, you have to be excellent at saying no. Google has decided Reader is a little thing it could not do really, really, well. So it is saying no.

I applaud that. (Even if it's caused NewsBlur to become almost too slow to use).

[CamperBob2]

The best leaders, the best organizations, the ones that create excellence, are those that are as good at saying no as they are at saying yes.

Google doesn't say "No." They say "Yes... yes... yes... no! Just kidding! Psych!"

I can't tie my personal or corporate strategy to that.