this "thought leadership" in our industry is a disease

There’s been an seo template since slashdot ages of find a prevailing wisdom, write a naive clickbaity post, profit. Sometimes I think authors are earnestly wrong, sometimes I think they are just fake. Sadly, it’s still profitable.

I thought that one day I’d interview someone who wrote a post like that and figure out for real. But I’ve been waiting decades so it probably won’t happen.

“Everything you know is wrong.” Yadda yadda yadda

It's probably been a lot, lot longer than that. This is an evolution of "think again!" articles from long ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if in some cave somewhere there's a message on the wall like "Think Oogie is best stone tool maker? Think again!"

The pretentiousness is suffocating sometimes, especially from those who don't actually build things but pontificate like they do.

throwaway because I am in the ecosystem

Stytch... is a weird business. It's unclear to me why they were able to raise so much money with such low revenue. It's almost as if the VCs really really wanted them to succeed, hoping and dreaming and throwing cash into the fire.

there was a lot of fanfare around their founding team but not sure if they did that much at their previous employer.

To be fair, there are examples of this in almost every industry and/or software-product vertical.