I am just going to put on some music and start typing away at my stream of consciousness thoughts on the state of the industry. Feel free to leave now, because there will be cursing. This post will be filled with my unfiltered thoughts which will include many f-bombs.

The Industry is cooked. Everything we are doing is fucking stupid.

There has never been a time in the last 10 years where I have not felt more disappointed with the leadership in tech and their inability to respond to the growing morale problems amongst actually skilled engineers as well as the mediocrity in the marketing, creative teams, human resources, and social media management. When I took Engineering as a major, and later left Engineering to do Computer Science which yes, is filled more with theory than practical applications, I did so because I was interested in the science of how we manage everyone’s data.

Let me simplify this for everyone in the industry because this is a designed intervention. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t a game. When mistakes are made handling people’s data, such as their location data, their financial data, their personal data, their medical data, etc, this can affect their ability to maintain employment, find access to healthcare, and in the case of doxxing, straight up get swatted or have fanboys reach out to you and come to your house.

I don’t want to mince words here. The privacy policies, while legal, of the big tech companies need revisions. They need revisiting. I always call for things to happen in the appropriate channels. I have long since been in interviews with companies like Blizzard, Google (two times now), Costar, Apartments.com, CU Direct, etc. I have even had Deloitte reach out to me. Robert Half. I have been to Lincoln Financial, AIG, and talked to representatives at Primerica. I don’t just drive by these places. I have been to Los Angeles financial sector and walked into the offices to the 20th odd floor inside of a skyscraper and pitched LMS software to financial gurus that failed to grasp the importance of ethics. I remember working in finance and being absolutely gobsmacked at the amount of finance “experts” seeking to become Real Estate agents, sell Anuities, CFP, etc, absolutely disgusted at the thought of needing to take an ethics course.

Yes. You need to take an ethics course. Most of these companies are indeed currently structured as Ponzi schemes. I remember taking phone calls in my cubicle in Newport Beach, California, right across from the country club where the PGA played, and listening to execs in C-suite telling me that they need to keep this hush hush because they are actually just a secretary and the man of the hour is on the beach somewhere. We transfer to their cell phone on the beach and listen to idyllic sounds of the waves crashing on the beach and my answer remains the same.

FUCK YOU. Take your fucking certification ethics courses you fucking disgusting pieces of shit.