> “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F**ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
> And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transformation into Mr. Hyde.
> He declared this in front of the product design team, developers, management, and pre-launch customers. One of our project sponsors had the temerity to ask when the problem crippling our product would be fixed.
Awesome. They fired him after he'd become burned out and snapped, but were perfectly happy to let him grind away day and night for years while the rest of the team was twiddling thumbs.
Thanks for reposting this. Sounds so eerily similar to my last principal that I wonder if it's the same guy, although I'm sure this is a common phenomenon.
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made. - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 125 comments; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211953 30 comments)
> “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F**ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
> And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transformation into Mr. Hyde.
> He declared this in front of the product design team, developers, management, and pre-launch customers. One of our project sponsors had the temerity to ask when the problem crippling our product would be fixed.
And then follow up:
A team reborn after the fiery departure of its misanthropic guru - https://blog.solha.co/life-after-rick-our-team-reborn-after-...