> I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many secrets of a former employer.
That's a good point that hadn't occurred to me before. It would not be surprising if whoever made the final decision to fire him did it for that reason.
He wasn’t retroactively cast as a misogynist, he was known to be misogynistic at the time, and he issued a false apology at the time.
But to your other point, he has steadfastly attacked consumer privacy as not being a thing that matters, so hiring him runs counter to that.
I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many secrets of a former employer. And he was only fired because by Apple after being retroactively cast as a misogynist in a woker age by people bad at parsing the license of creative non-fiction. Life is absurd, and our best predictions futile.
But what it tells me is that it is easier to go from tech worker to provocative media personality than to take the reverse route. He condemned himself to practice a sort of journalism, or, at best, to work for less visible companies.
And that is a great argument for the pseudonymous economy that balajis is advocating. So that people can speak their minds and maintain their livelihoods at the same time.