Every day we see people giving 8 hours a day to their jobs, and it's not enough. The org needs more time from them just to get their stuff done. So they give 10 hours a day. But the org needs more. So they give 10.5 hours a day and 8 hours on the weekend. But the org needs more… We've worked with thousands of leaders from hundreds of organizations. Here's the thing.

The org will always need more.

This is a common complaint among bosses, and its counterpart (“I totally don’t care about titles but...”) is an equally common disclaimer among job seekers. Won’t put words in Brett’s mouth, but many people assume the right thing is to do away with titles. It isn’t. 🧵

https://twitter.com/brettreedd/status/1287079878442078209

Titles are applied very inconsistently, often used as candy for new hires, and are frequently under-defined. These are true statements. But the cure for that, like most shitty management, is to hold managers accountable for doing their jobs, not throwing out useful tools.

So I want to talk about google/alphabet and “amateur hour” tactics. It’s a piece of the #BlockSidewalk discussion I may have unique perspective on.

Because they’ve run this play on me before.

https://twitter.com/biancawylie/status/1116335069134761984

I spent 8 years at Mozilla working on Firefox and for almost all of that time google was our biggest partner. Our revenue share deal on search drove 90% of Mozilla’s income.