Just about every time I've met with UX folks @Meta over the years, I hear a consistent theme: "Exec team wanted us to clone product X, we tried to convince them why we should build product Y instead" That's a tricky environment to operate in, and probably not uncommon in SV..

Ah weird this formatting looked normal on desktop web but looks broken on mobile (cc @andy)

Did you type it up in another text editor? Looks like there's a bunch of carriage returns forcing line breaks (it's just wide enough of desktop to make it look normal).

Lol I love it — mini realness in tech poems is a great idea for a series. Brings levity to tired thought leadership, but doesn’t ignore it either. Might have to just run with It