Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired

Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by ghostbrainalpha on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:11PM (#33835292)

Prince recorded his first album by himself and played all 21 instruments, so he's not the perfect example for this.

Michael Jordan might be a great example though, he worked harder then anyone else, and ALSO raised the standard of how hard people needed to work on the team beyond the normal limits.

They all did benefit from the Championships that followed, but it was certainly also a strain of the mental health of players like Dennis Rodman.

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by tomcam on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:29PM (#33839839)

> Prince recorded his first album by himself and played all 21 instruments, so he's not the perfect example for this.

Why isn't he a good example? He worked hard and wrote a bunch of good music. He didn't seem to cause a race to the bottom.

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by ghostbrainalpha on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:42PM (#33870778)

I thought the parallels was that his hard work would have caused on a strain on his bandmates, which it didn't, because he didn't really have any.

I thought Band Mates was the best comparison, because we were talking about fellow employee's suffering at a company. And if your comparison was of Prince to The Music Industry at large, it sort of works, but sort of doesn't because other musicians are Prince's competitors not team mates.

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