Amazes how can one “love a company”. It’s just a job. Do it, do it well and get your paycheck. That’s it. The company will never love you back anyway.
Find a job you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. I believe that was Churchill.
I enjoy the line of work I’m in. I don’t always enjoy the companies that I do it in. Some are much better than others. It’s fine to like or even love where you work as long as you realize that you’re in what could easily become an abusive relationship at any time. Do your time and do it well but don’t go out of your way to do it. That’s what I strive for.
Indeed, loving the line of work that you’re in is different from loving the company that you’re in. It’s a very important distinction to make.
Your company doesn’t love you back. Someday they may find themselves needing to balance some numbers in a spreadsheet and out you go, regardless of how many years you’ve spent there and how much you love doing what they’re asking you to do. In the meantime, they’re using you how they see fit, not necessarily in the way that’s best for you. You need to watch out for yourself.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to get a job that you love, just make very sure that you’re not misdirecting the love of your job to loving your company. It’ll hurt when you find out it’s not mutual and you may not be properly prepared for the subsequent job search.
Indeed, loving the line of work that you’re in is different from loving the company that you’re in. It’s a very important distinction to make.
That’s what I meant.
Lost me completely at
Much of the criticism Google received around Chrome and Search, especially around supposed conflicts of interest with Ads, was way off base
Both are ad delivery services that sometimes do something slightly resembling benefiting the end user.
If not for near-monopoly market share and therefore everything being integrated with and “optimised” for both, nobody who cares enough to know would use that crap willingly.
If not for near-monopoly market share and therefore everything being integrated with and “optimised” for both, nobody who cares enough to know would use that crap willingly.
Chrome built its market share on desktop up over many many years.
I also think you’re underestimating the number of people who couldn’t care less if a company harvests their data for ad personalisation - by this point the majority of people understand Facebook’s business strategy, but they still have over a billion users. The preferences of us terminally online folks are not the preferences of the population at large.
Chrome built its market share on desktop up over many many years.
Yes, by making the best product. Then once they’d achieved the market donination necessary to not lose everyone, they changed that product from optimised for best user experience to optimised for maximum ad revenue.
I also think you’re underestimating the number of people who couldn’t care less
No, I am aware that they’re sadly the majority. Hence why I specifically said “anyone who cares enough to know better”
preferences of us terminally online folks are not the preferences of the population at large.
You don’t have to be “terminally online” (which is a slur invented by the wilfully ignorant to denigrate people with different interests and priorities than them, no matter how much you try to reclaim it) to care about basic privacy rights, but yeah, that sentence is otherwise correct, as I said earlier.
