Maybe instead of making up creative falsehoods, they could just speak simply without whipping the village idiot for approbation.
Add some flaws to your genius programmer alter ego and some humanity to the villain, and the story will become way more interesting. You don’t need to go overboard, just add enough so it doesn’t feel like the story is populated by cardboard cutouts.
Is there another story from this author someone would recommend? Preferably not on Medium, but it’s OK if it’s the only option.
Only those that went to Facebook (Meta, whatever) all seem to have a certain personality trait (hard to pin down exactly, I would even cautiously say, some small aspect of their psychological makeup missing or mildly broken, but definitely the same among all people I know who went there).
I have worked in all kinds of fields and you might be surprised to hear that the most openly psychopathic leadership I have ever experienced was in EDU
Meta may draw a certain type of person, but let’s not kid ourselves that they have a uniquely terrible culture. Just maybe one of the more influential.
Then the whole thing came apart entirely when they were able to do anything productive at all in their first week at a huge tech company. I’d be shocked if they could even get access to the source code during onboarding.
