I've had no interest in blogging lately. Too much work and crazed baby to deal with. But it's good to know that there is lots of complete rubbish for people to read while I abstain from writing. Take today's NY Times masterpiece "In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich" about several SV execs who still have to work. I don't want to go super-negative here but I know two of the profiled and while I nev I’ve had no interest in blogging lately. Too much work and crazed baby to deal with. But it’s good to know that there is lots of complete rubbish for people to read while I abstain from writing. Take today’s NY Times masterpiece “In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich” about several SV execs who still have to work. I don’t want to go super-negative here but I know two of the profiled and while I never considered them to be crybabies, this article makes them look like Oliver Twist characters upset with their paltry “$2.2 million” in the bank. It’s perfectly OK to want to work hard and try and hit it big(ger). “I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t go as far as it used to. Maybe in the ’70s, a few million bucks meant ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,’ or Richie Rich living in a big house with a butler. But not anymore.” Hal works for Funambol, I company I truly enjoy, but I can’t see how this kind of comment would make the development team or community members want to help him. On to Tony B, former marketing guy at Groundwork and a guy who I consider a friend. My issue here is that it doesn’t explain that Tony founded a company and sold it, only that he somehow amassed riches that are dissipating. Today, he has roughly $1.2 million left in savings and another several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of home equity, Mr. Barbagallo said, with one child in college and a second on her way. So he works as hard as ever, logging more than 70 hours a week at a San Francisco start-up. “Poor Tony, he’ll never be able to retire,” Catherine Barbagallo said. Of the three people profiled two are from open source companies–companies that rely on developers out in the universe who often get paid nothing for their work, and in 99% of the cases have no equity in the companies that they contribute code to. This is some message to send to the developers toiling away all over the world. End result, this article sucks and I am pretty surprised that Gary Rivlin took it in this direction. Employees–especially developers take this stuff really personal, and no one in this article was done a favor. Sometimes not all press is good press. Open Source