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Fogknife : Why I left Google (9 minute read)

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I have resigned from Google. I plan to return to the world of open-source projects, for now. After three years of grinding away at the cutting edge of cloud services documentation, I feel the call to help tend to the world’s slow, stable technologies instead. My time at Google, in retrospect, was like a full graduate-degree course in technical writing and teamwork. I will treasure the skills and the professional relationships I developed there for the rest of my life. Part of me wishes I could have stayed longer, but I know that moving on is my best path today. Every major transition like this involves both external incentives that pull you to a new place, and internal factors encouraging an exit from your current location. As for my reasons in the latter category, I only gesture to how Google itself has adjusted its goals and attitudes quite publicly in the three years since I joined, making it feel like a different employer than the one I interviewed at. I don’t fault Google for trim

Fogknife : Why I left Google (9 minute read) Toggle navigation Fogknife Tags Archive About RSS Donate Why I left Google July 21, 2024 Or: How I became the focus of a mass ritual against generative AI, and what I did about it. I have resigned from Google. I plan to return to the world of open-source projects, for now. After three years of grinding away at the cutting edge of cloud services documentation, I feel the call to help tend to the world’s slow, stable technologies instead. My time at Google, in retrospect, was like a full graduate-degree course in technical writing and teamwork. I will

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