The After - Tao of Mac
As you may have read in the news, Microsoft decided to lay off several hundred people from Strategic Missions and Technologies and reorganize the Azure for Operators unit.
I can’t go into any details about what happened internally, but I can certainly describe what the fallout from this looks like at a personal level:
So, to ground myself a bit and put things into perspective, I decided to tally all the previous catastrophes and career-defining moments I “survived”:
All of these have one thing in common: I had, at best, the illusion of control, but, most often, no ability whatsoever to change the outcome.
And as someone who’s profoundly self-driven and hyper-focused on constantly figuring out the next steps to fix things, being bereft of control and facing a completely unhinged situation (or having agency but being unable to focus it), is the kind of thing that really doesn’t let me sleep at night.
And that I shouldn’t really blame myself to be too close to the before to anticipate what could go wrong (well, actually I sort of did, but I can’t write about that…), or (most importantly) forget that there is always an after.
