I think this is an inevitable thing that happens when you have huge orgs with a limit on who can be promoted, there's not enough reward for everyone. I don't know how to do it. Trust managers doesn't scale, people reward their friends or whatever. Microsoft faced this too, but they didn't have a packet approach, it seemed like the senior managers decided, without having a paper trail like that.
Lab126 created some of the first e-ink technology, right? Is the Kindle, or e-ink screens, or e-ink patents, the worst thing ever... or is there something else I should know about in this space?
There's a lot to unpack in that sentence. Care to elaborate?
I'm sorry.
In my defense, I said it was a horrible idea at the time, we'd have to stream everyone's audio to the cloud to get the keyword spotting to work...
Also, Lab126 did not create e-ink! E-ink came out of the Media Lab long before the first kindle.
I'm glad that they're finally making one with a stylus, when I was there (more then a decade ago) there was a prototype tablet you could write on that had a brilliant new sort of user interface.
It's easy to bamboozle yourself from the obvious "maybe people are incentivized to do things to get promoted and perhaps even unnecessary things" to wild unrelated fantasies of how this could explain decisions you don't agree with
Even though I'm simply trying to guess from context without actually knowing, everything you just said sounds both accurate and hilariously well put.
Edit: WOW. I had no idea that's how things (even used to) work within those companies. A packet of materials you submit to get promoted. I'm almost bowled over with laughter.
That explains everything.
Here in the normal world, I get promoted by... being good at my job. Asking for it as part of a performance review, typically one I negotiate for as part of my employment, also helps.