Silicon Valley / SF have had a stranglehold on the digital economy for the last 20-30 years -- nearly anything that touches electrics or software had a "tax" where some portion of that innovation flowed back as cash.
With covid / the great reset, I've seen so many leave the bay area now that they can work remote. It's occured to me that SV / SF will need to reinvent itself and be in a rough patch for a couple years. The benefit to the rest of the americans is that all those high paying jobs and new ways of doing business are being dispersed throughout the rest of the USA which is better for all of us in the end.
it's so weird. i know it'll be cold in feb in minnesota. i know this because i have experience. and that experience translates into my ability to give guidance. if you want to be taken serious, you need experience to be able to estimate.
folks over 65 and 40% BMI got their go in life. prioritizing around the make makes more sense to me.
thankfully the lockdowns are no stomach anymore in most of the states. a visit to an airport and any city not in california or ny and you can see and feel the difference in an instant.
sold my company to atlassian in 2006. i worked at atlassian for nearly a decade. ran bitbucket for years. ran product at docker after that.
any notion that engineers should not be on customer calls, or driving engineering specs is the opposite of what i would consider the best implementation of agile.
Anyone who builds anything needs a process and accountability.