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Thank you for including me... brought out plenty of perspectives I hadn't shared yet.

Comes up often in my day to day, too. I work in tech (and invest in startups around the future of work). People wonder whether it's the beginning of something more widespread... and nobody's crying a river for Google employees, it's more that sometimes change begins with people in the best position to bargain...

There's something here -- like "it came from a human" is, by definition, something only humans can do. Handmade, artisanal, we already have a lot of stuff like that.

Employees are a meaningful constituency of any company, as meaningful as shareholders IMHO. Totally agree with you.

Any predictions about whether the Google Walkout ends up feeling, five years from now, as the beginning of a movement or a flash in the pan?

Communities supporting products that the community dislikes are like restaurants with a good location getting away with crappy food.

The product is only as good as it needs to be to serve the community -- if the community's stuck with it, then the product has no gravity pulling it to get better. That said, I happen to think Medium is just fine. The complaints in the article seem (a) to apply only to some uses, really and (b) fall into the "if you dislike it so much, make your own damn mousetrap" camp?

Hey... I run Bloomberg Beta. I think that creating a self-fulfilling prophecy is absolutely a dynamic here. Our goal wasn't to succeed at predicting so much as it is to get to know great people before they start companies. If that action induces them to start companies, and they have a great experience doing it, but our prediction's accuracy is compromised -- that's fine. We're using data as a tool to make things better, not for its predictive value in and of itself.

I always, always seem to find something new and interesting when I open the app... bodes well.

OUYA -- Bay Area, CA Android OS knowers and seekers

OUYA's making a game console, built on Android. http://ouya.tv

Hardware ships in March (with developer kits going out in December). OUYA's building a small team that will create a new game platform: discovery of new games, a TV UI, eventually working on the Android NDK to improve game performance, a social layer, and... other stuff.

No titles environment, everyone works directly with the CEO. Other engineers from EA, Amazon, Pivotal, Motorola, etc. Almost everything we write could be open sourced.

You work independently, love to be wrong when a better idea comes along, play games, and maybe even backed our Kickstarter so we know you were in from the get-go. You know where the bodies are buried in Android, or can figure it out quick.

No time to write more. If you're interested, help us get to know you better with this every-question-optional get to know you...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdkcmF...

I came to visit this group once when they were starting their program, and I'm going in again -- simply because I think the approach is conducive to identifying people who are hyper-motivated, and stripping away every possible obstacle to learning. I'm excited to see where it goes.