Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub

there’s simply no way around the fact that we’re pretty fed up with a certain philosophical framework in Silicon Valley. It has many names: the growth mindset. OKRs. KPIs. Even Minimalism — the predominant aesthetic of our era. But at its core, it all comes down to one thing: the relentless optimization of everything in our world.

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Providing real human value isn't a benchmark for business success. Instead, success is defined by speed, scale, and growth. This is deeply rooted in our culture of technology. It's easy to become swept along without realizing how far we have strayed from our original direction.

And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives an

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