The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect : an interesting discussion of the struggles with information technology (IT) development in companies. It is an apt analogy and applies even at a larger scale, like a country’s brain drain, not just in the IT industry.
Talented people simply move on when they hit the limit of managements’ fuck-ups and stupidities. As time grows, these people have shorter tolerance. Those who remain generally have some forms of learned helplessness or are enjoying as part of the corporate incumbents. You are either leveraging or being leveraged. Sometimes, it is better to be talented at leveraging than be leveraged. Leveraging and manipulation is just a very fine line.
The unpolished talent who is wise, will take the opportunity to enjoy L.I.F.E for 1-3 years as one of the phases of his/her career. Learning In (a) Fucked-up Environment is just one of the many ironies of life. We need adversities to mold us. We need a fall due to arrogance before considering the humble pie. The list of ironies can go on..
In short, we grow when we get our of our comfort zones. If you are getting too comfortable, watch out. Yet another irony.
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