I’d not say this is a story about Microsoft. Far more time is spent on journalism than MS.

To start, Zitron is simply better at this sort of analysis than I am. Which isn’t something I like to admit (I want to be the best at everything!), but he has more dots to connect than I do. He basically stitches together about six columns and blog posts I’ve written over the years and effectively synthesizes them into one coherent narrative.

Management has become completely unhinged from production, unaware of what the fuck we actually do and uninterested in wasting time improving anything other than their own image. Fuck the product, I got mine.

In a way, it’s oddly … soothing? Like, I’m not crazy but perhaps a bit too aware of where late-stage capitalism was going a bit earlier than most. Such awareness doesn’t exactly buy beer.