added by Lucas Kohorst and · updated 19d ago
Resignation letter
- Tech began to feel extractive, rather than additive: more and more people are in tech to make money, to climb the corporate ladder, to extract value, rather than adding it and growing the pie out of sheer curiosity of genuine love for the craft. Tech is attracting a different type of people than before, and everyone who's been in this industry long... See more
from The dawn of a new startup era by Gianluca Segato
100%. I left the tech industry for this reason. Trying to find the tech nerds out there who love it for what it is.
- There is a... relief... in admitting that your ambition is no longer that useful. I’ve wasted a lot of energy on personal ambition. But achievement never assuaged a feeling that my work isn’t necessary. The world may not need another thing, but it does need another person who derives value from elevating others. I’ve learned that I’d rather be forg... See more
from It’s Time to Replace Ambition with Adaptation by Rosie Spinks
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So I’m taking my belated gap year, I’m “dropping out” of the tech career ladder. At some point you run out of excuses (save more money, figure out immigration stuff, also these layoffs, also the uncertainty, and what if you just spiral, or what if you fail, blah blah blah). By the end it felt less like a decision and more like an inevitab
... See morefrom Jumping into the void by Kasra
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