Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by hitekker on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:15PM
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I initially didn't get that vibe but then I re-read it. Yikes.
> Gerv challenged me, infuriated me, impressed me, enraged me, surprised me. He developed a greater ability to work with ambiguity, which impressed me.
This is manager-speak describing someone who is incompetent. Someone who, only thanks to management, become less incompetent. Should that be an in obituary?
On the whole, Mitchell paints Gerv as a great programmer and an unruly religious nutjob-- a good worker and, as she conveys, a bad person. Frankly, I'm unsure why she didn't just say a few parting words, and then leave at that. I don't think she was his friend, and he probably didn't think of her as his mentor.
I suspect that her stock in Mozilla rested upon being seen as a "great community leader" and this was an opportunity to signal her goodness over a report she couldn't manage and whose views her people hated. Self-serving to say the least.
> Gerv challenged me, infuriated me, impressed me, enraged me, surprised me. He developed a greater ability to work with ambiguity, which impressed me.
This is manager-speak describing someone who is incompetent. Someone who, only thanks to management, become less incompetent. Should that be an in obituary?
On the whole, Mitchell paints Gerv as a great programmer and an unruly religious nutjob-- a good worker and, as she conveys, a bad person. Frankly, I'm unsure why she didn't just say a few parting words, and then leave at that. I don't think she was his friend, and he probably didn't think of her as his mentor.
I suspect that her stock in Mozilla rested upon being seen as a "great community leader" and this was an opportunity to signal her goodness over a report she couldn't manage and whose views her people hated. Self-serving to say the least.