[jsmthrowaway]

Good thing it wasn’t my primary responsibility and I didn’t, you know, study the system Google expected me to administer for a living. That sort of knowledge might have shaped my career if I had spent two months studying a software system.

Oh wait, I did, and it did.

Come on, John, I’ve shipped entire products in less than two months. So have you, I’m sure. You really think I passed a SRE-SWE panel then couldn’t figure out a complex software system in eight weeks? Is this really the approach you’d want someone to remember you for? Butthurt and lashing out because I don’t agree with you on software you’ve convinced Stripe to pay you to fuck around with, and assailing credentials instead of listening to what might be a valuable point, or even disputing it?

I always think about the people who flip me off from the safety of halfway down the exit ramp when I’m in threads like these. Not that I’d do anything about it, because I have priors, but still, I smile.

I don’t have a middle name, by the way.