A reader pinged me from Silicon Valley's major commuter train with the following story and sneaky camphone photos. Note the Microsoft bike jacket and Google bike socks, and you can just picture these guys yakking about their money.
I'm on the Caltrain right now overhearing a conversation between...
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Overheard:
Overachiever #1: I feel like I'm not doing enough. I'm really driven - my friends tell me I need to find balance.
Overachiever #2: "Finding balance" is a euphemism for "quitting."
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The following two quotes are hearsay and were probably paraphrased twice.
One of my friends there said, "At Google management is a janitorial function."
And about the famous "20% time" where employees work on personal projects:
My friends there say it works more like, 175% of your time is spent...
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