Welcome everybody to the tech meme ride home experience for April 14th. I'm sorry I'm so confused because it's 11 a.m. which is a very strange and unusual time but

today is also a very big news day.

Aulon apparently wants to really get the edit button and so is going to buy the

whole company to make that happen. But before we get into that

whole conversation, we've got Kyrgye who writes the pragmatic engineer newsletter on Substack, which is, I guess, the number one technology

newsletter, is that right?

Yeah, it's a number one paid.

Number one paid.

Well, congratulations. That's quite the distinction I'm here to talk to us about a number of things one of which is the the collapse of fast

engineering culture what the hell is going on with

atlassian there's a whole bunch of like background noise and radiation kind of

I think happening sort of in the text space right now and you know you've kind of got

your your finger on the pulse of it but before we dive into some of the things you've been writing about talking about

You want to start with a little more of an introduction

Brian what do you what do you think? Yeah, so let's start this way. Let's talk about Fests

specifically at first and then I want to talk about going into if you're a higher at a startup the the risks that could be involved like a

deeper dive into that and then conversely a deeper dive into well what if I join

an established company a fang company or whatever but before we do that also let me state some priors here,

which is, you know, both of you have worked for startups,

have worked for major tech companies and I have not I've never worked for anybody

except for FedEx for six months or is it is it that it doesn't interest you it just never happened so so but the reason I'm

saying that is is not to hi had anybody but to say I want to be sort of, I want this episode to be educational for people that are like maybe gonna join a startup or a major tech company.

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