Well it was published 14 years ago. He was probably in college or something when he wrote it. Not giving him a pass or anything, just pointing out he didn’t write in while in his current role.

Sorry for offtop, but I'm refusing to believe that 2007 was 14 years ago

If he had ever changed that view you'd really hope he would have gone back and updated that essay.

If he even remembered writing it. I have no idea what I wrote 14 years ago, whether its online, or where online it might be.

Losing track of what I've written on my own personal blog seems really unlikely to me, despite havig a terrible memory, but I gues it's possible.

Everyone should know 10 years in advance to write nuanced posts.

He didn't clean it up when starting in the role, he damaged the (employer) brand he was expected to protect/develop as part of his role, he got re-assigned to a different role, which is arguably a reasonable consequence.