Fair point. I think Fred meant the comment more for the founder mentality of not giving up etc. Given that a lot of his readership is founder/investors vs. typical startup employees, maybe that's OK?

And while tone deaf to a newly unemployed engineer, I'll risk downvotes to say that perhaps it's not a bad attitude for them to take either. Yes, this is really shitty and the immediate outlook doesn't look great, but go on attack, don't sit around / wallow, go make something happen! etc.