Reputation
I’ve been thinking a bit about reputation lately. This was spurned by a few events/incidents in my life:
A startup founder I am consulting with threw a temper tantrum due to inconsistent results due to a combination of UI complications and machine learning algorithms. They claimed that “…We need to fix this in the next 24 hrs because our reputation is on the line here. If you aren’t able to fix it then I’ll need to make alternate arrangements asap” My GopherConAU co-organizer stressing out over the website design of Go Go Go Gogo, and stressing over pixel perfection of the sponsorship prospectus because she wants “the [prospective sponsors and attendees] to think we are professionals - our reputation is all we have” A work meeting with an external client about something got somewhat derailed for about 10 minutes because the one person from the other party recognized me as the author of Gorgonia and we (me and said other person) proceeded to talk about super-deep technical details of why their company ended up writing their own library.
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