Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's just very hard to resist temptation.
I think that there comes this point where you've built this self-licking ice cream cone.
It's kind of just, it's like the money's just piling up.
You know, and like, and, and, you know, you've, you're supposedly you're, you're fierce competitors with these people, but you all kind of know each other.
And especially like, maybe not the founders, but in the upper ranks, you know, especially when there's only a small number of firms, everyone like job hops from one firm to another.
Cause often, you know, like the VP can't become an SVP in that firm because there isn't someone ready to quit or die.
And so they get headhunted laterally and they move back and forth.
Yeah, everyone moves diagonally.
And so, like, they're all, like, godparents to each other's children.
They're, like, executors of each other's estates.
They play pickleball.
They're in the same polycule, you know.
And, like, they just end up with this kind of emergent consensus.
Yeah, go slow.
Yeah, yeah.
They're sometimes called work to rule, go slows.
They're all the... Yeah, same thing.
You follow all the rules.
But you're not really doing anything.
Which means you don't do anything.
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