By Steve Yegge
Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about service platforms to my public Google+ account (i.e. this one). It somehow went viral, which is nothing short of stupefying given that it was a massive Wall of Text. The whole thing still feels surreal.
Amazingly, nothing bad happened to me at Google. Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history.
But they also listened, which is super cool. I probably shouldnβt talk much about it, but theyβre already figuring out how to deal with some of the issues I raised. I guess I shouldnβt be surprised, though. When I claimed in my internal post that βGoogle does everything rightβ, I meant it. When theyβre faced with any problem at all, whether itβs technical or organizational or cultural, they set out to solve it in a first-class way.
Anyway, whenever something goes viral, skeptics start wondering if it was faked or staged. My accident