Itamar Turner-Trauring on Nostr: The company I worked at was acquired by Google, I was tired of what I was doing, and ...
The company I worked at was acquired by Google, I was tired of what I was doing, and due to RSI I could only be a product manager, couldn't type enough to write software. And I didn't want anything to do with selling ads. So I figured, Google Books—selling books is a fine business, they had a local team, I like books, hurrah.
I had some ideas, some I still haven't seen anyone do, but what I mainly learned is what it's like working at Google: upper management is akin to weather. In particular—
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