Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant ⇥

Regarding his experiences at Amazon:

We’re talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. [Bezos] hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people “who runs the company” when they disagree with him.

And at Google:

The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. […] Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction,

This was originally posted on Google+, by the way.