Teacher, Writer, Engineer, Full Stack Maker. Tag everything :latest. Ex Dev Rel. Ex. Sales Engineer. Currently @ModusCreate. Family man and follower of Jesus.
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Google fires the guy that should probably replace a PM somewhere at Google. Builds the thing that every engineer influencer has been asking for and creates instant love for the product.
This is not how you do it.
Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.
I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.
I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.
Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
This story needs more exposure.
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New business idea, agentic IDE and issue tracker.
Cause issues.
Find issues.
Fix issues.
(repeat)
Hockey-stick DAU and evaluation.
Maybe it's just me, but if you are replying to a candidate 6+ months after they applied to a job to inform them the role is no longer available, just don't.
I've moved on. I'm happy. You're just reminding me of a time I'd rather forget.
Wanted a way to generate a fake text conversation for a screenshot for my slides. Had Google make an app for me to do it. Three shots. Done in 3 minutes. It proposed the AI feature. This is wild.
The reason I am FOR social healthcare is because I like knowing my neighbor can focus on being healthy, not how to pay for it. Seeing EMTs advise people on whether they should go to the hospital or not based on how much it would cost sorta liberalized that part of my politics.
I don’t know what level of family life includes “children who sing in the shower” - but it’s a good level.
My best hair is scorched earth.
Same
My best hair is no shampoo and only occassionally soap
The natural oils return after a few months and if your diet is healthy your hair will get natural volume and shine
Your hair will also respond to the local water, in Bali I'd get hair like deep fried noodles from the salt I think while in Portugal where the water is more hard my hair is more flat
A 50-year mortgage just means you are renting from the bank, but they have less responsibility to fix stuff for you. It does have a fun predictive markets angle for those that like to speculate on the housing market, though.
Sorry to be that guy, but iPhone Pocket gives "bar of soap in a sock" vibes. Not saying an "anti-mugging" accessory for the iPhone isn't a good idea, but I don't think that's what they were going for.
Storing my gluten-free sourdough starter next to my home lab to leverage some of the heat output is about as complete a picture of me as you need.
