alt Hacker News> The title was the point of the post.
I still find it incredibly troubling. Not because the substance was wrong, but because a person of your caliber has stooped to the level of writing provocative headlines and language to attract attention. I strongly believe world-class technologists are supposed to be above that sort of thing. Leadership matters: not just thought leadership, but attitudinal leadership.
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usef- • yesterday at 11:58 PM
fwiw, I don't think it was deliberately provocative for the goal of "attracting attention", it seemed to be his genuine belief.
I remember feeling similarly after seeing so many people denying what had already changed.
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The funniest thing about this post is that I was writing it, in my head, to a specific group of developers I've worked with, and who I know to be smart and more talented than me. What I should have seen coming was that when I described a group of people as the smartest developers I know, everybody who read it would think it was about them.
Live and learn.