You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
People are gushing about this recent post by Paul Graham. After some thought, I conclude it is one of the dumber things I’ve read this year. The responses are equally shallow, compared to what I would expect for an argumentative, myopic post: tangential bitching about crop subsidies, student loans, debt, hypocritical snarkiness, etc. The comments on Reddit are better, but still tapdancing around criticising the post for what it is—reductive, remarkably narrow generalizations about humans expressed only through their percieved job ability, with some social anthropology to make it sound insightful and relevatory. There is so much more complexity to human happiness, ambition, compromise, abuse of power and the good fight of small improvements in the working world. It makes me sad to see this as the level of discussion. Then again, I could have just stumbled into a group ego-massage, like so much of the internet when it comes to the “hacker”/VC world view.
