I am going to switch, will save perhaps 30k in fees over next few decades

Is anyone else immediately turned off by articles like this written in "ChatGPT voice"? The information in the guide might be good, but I didn't make it past the introduction.

I've been burned too many times by LLM-slop. If an article is written in ChatGPT voice, it might still have good content but your readers don't know that. Editing for style and using your own voice helps credibly signal that you put effort into the content.

It's a motte and bailey where if people accuse you of doing that you retreat to saying "no see they're separate lists".

It would explain the early retirement + lack of work history.

But yes, family money is also a possibility.

I don't think he's the activist people make him out to be. He went on a few podcasts early on but has generally kept a low profile. I'm not under the impression he's doing the paid speaker / podcast circuit. Probably just living his life.

After he was cancelled probably nobody wanted to hire him, maybe he left tech completely.

But yes, agree it was weird to include him next to the other names. He's not like, a billionaire founder.

It closes saying they need to stop reliving their glory days and be good fathers and not the town drunk. Those are serious accusations - being a bad father and a drunk. The author doesn't give any evidence for either.

The book is descriptive - describing the ethical norms in large corporations, but it doesn't make a value judgement on whether those norms are good or bad.

A fascinating read of you're curious about the structural reasons for this sort of behavior. Really interesting to see how people act by different ethical codes inside vs outside of work.

It's not ideal, but also not likely to change. Understanding the structural reasons why it is the way it is has helped me to be less surprised / angry by things like this which I can't change.

Same reason when you open Netflix it shows new recommendations first, with the option to continue in-progress shows below. Most users will choose the latter, but they don't put it first because it hurts product metrics.

It looks like they have many of the same algorithms.

Their product was letting people take leveraged gambles on crypto, so arguably not a social good.

I also wear noise canceling headphones while working, usually without anything playing. They do wonders to muffle outside noise.

When I listen to music while working it's usually brain.fm - music specially designed to help you focus. Anacdotally I've found it useful, and they also have a whitepaper going into the science behind their approach.