It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

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    11 months ago

    Both.

    They shouldn’t have launched 4 chat apps and killed 3.

    They shouldn’t launch products with no plan to support them.

    They shouldn’t kill products that customers use.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You wanna know who’s to blame?

      You’ll never guess…

      Steve Jobs. One of founders, Larry or Sergey, was given a piece of advice that they found so ‘incredible’ that they mentioned it during an interview and a book.

      ‘Don’t be afraid to trim the fat and kill products’. About 6 months after I read about that Google’s products started dying like flies. They’ve kept the same pathological drive to murder products for over a decade since and it’s fucking infuriating.