In hindsight the period 2015-2022 was a kind of a golden age for Microsoft.
They actually made (well, acquired) some good software, and even not-so-good stuff like Azure had a point of existing.
Of course it all went downhill very quickly.
Inertia. And GitHub was actually good, despite MS ownership. Until recently.
Ironically if you really want employees to be motivated by more than money, you need to pay even more.
Only people who don’t worry about money can afford to be motivated by other things.
As someone who’s not American and had a couple of job opportunities to move to San Francisco, I’m glad not to have done it.
What kind of hellhole is that city? I had an impression it was extremely expensive but also very wealthy. The more I hear the worse it seems.
My favorite part of this post is people from different flavors of Christianity arguing completely different things using the same source.