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This article is interesting enough to submit but I will note one annoying thing: it says "Past the veneer of primary colors, inside the walls of Google's Mountain View campus, Google is a hotbed of sex and political infighting."
Any time one examines a large group of adults, or really any post-pubescent people, many of them will have sex with each other... because it's fun. Why this should be a surprise, beyond simple salaciousness, is beyond me.
It's not a surprise, it's a story angle. Sex sells, attracts pageviews. The writer knows this, we know this, and he will write using this narrative, and we will read it anyway.
at least we've moved beyond, "hatching new employees from their Swedish exercise balls." Like asexual alien predators.
Business Insider, like Gawker and Valleywag, is best ignored if you want to learn anything substantive about the way the tech industry actually works, let alone learn anything about how tech actually works (God, their reviews of gadgets and descriptions of startups are horrible). Not to say that the actual events mentioned in this article didn't happen, but the linking of them into some sort of narrative about how "power really flows" at Google is specious and most obviously a not-so-subtle ploy for impressions.
tl;dr: Google = pageviews, sex = pageviews, Google + sex = PAGEVIEWS
Too much politics, not enough sex.
I enjoy Slate, but: What is this, ValleyWag? Bravo TV?
I care about technology. If I want to hear about a character drama I'll watch TV. The intersection of both is boundlessly boring to me.
NOT. INTERESTED.
The part on Vic Gundotra reminds me of the real name fiasco on Google+:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1778830/google-is-gagging-use...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161469
"There's another about a pair of Googlers, each married to other people, secretly having a child together."
How is this possible? Are they adopting? It seems like if one of them is a woman and she is bringing the child to term, her husband would notice. Unless she just doesn't see him for ~5 months (which I suppose is another possibility)
By claiming it's her husband's? Anyway that whole rumor part turned out very annoying.
Easy. Have sex with husband next day and in a month tell him he's about to be a daddy
Once again, another sensationalist piece about Google. Human beings are political creatures. Human beings are also sexual creatures. Is this surprising? No. Then again, it is Slate...
Despite the salacious title, this is more about politics in the plex, and it's quite interesting.