When you invest so much of your being into one idea/concept/project it can be hard to imagine what one would do if that project were taken away from you.
Twitter’s CEO was just fired, after being on the job for a whole year. I wonder what Parag does next. I am curious about how he and the other Twitter execs who got fired today are feeling.
In tech, a common question that gets tossed around: “what are you working on these days?”
I have found it easy to conflate the concepts of “thing I work on” and “my thing” …
The thing I work on, any given week, was really stuff that was assigned to me at some point. I am like a tenant farmer from the 1800’s … but for the digital age. Just because I have been working on something for weeks/months/years, does not mean that it is my work. I do not own that work. I just happen to … do it. Crazy to put it out like that.
You might think that CEOs of this world are the kings/queens of the company. But in reality, they are not … or so no it would seem. I am sure they land somewhere meaningful and lucrative after their work/role/title is taken from them. But in that moment, when they are walked out of the company building, it must really dawn on them — it was never theirs’ to begin with. Or not. Or they knew it all along. Or pixie dust.
As I sit on this quiet Thursday, in my living room, reading this Twitter Deal news, I cannot help but wonder… what must be going through the minds of everyone who is working or ever worked at Twitter. And the biggest question I have for them: do they still feel that this was their product that they owned, as they worked on them?
— vijay,
#microblogging from Medium
Winter Rant 
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