Steve Klabnik

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Nice to see this: engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/d...

"spanish bioshock but with catholic statues and your gun shoots your own blood"

“Epstein? The financier?” meme

Bluesky? The sports app?

Haha to be clear this isn’t about BlueSky it’s about another company

This is pretty cool!

Whipped up: panozzaj.github.io/speech-bubbl...

they're pretty easy to whip up in Paint, it's an oval and a triangle

Ahh, the fallacy fallacy

thank you, that's very kind

bsky.app/profile/stev...

ehh i guess that's fair

i just see no reason to assume something bad has happened when it's equally likely that nothing bad has.

i am just one person. i could always be wrong. just my own take :)

i mean, "cold application" can mean multiple things. not in the sense you mean, but in other senses.

imagine i'm not happy at my job, (I AM!! HYPOTHETICAL!!!) yet I didn't know this was going to happen. now with this news, I reach out in private.

there's a reason this kind of thing takes months

i am neutral on the "should", personally, but yeah. it's just very normal.

if the board is firing you, you're fired

jay is still staying on as an executive

i'm not sure even i can handle that job tbqh

the general inference of "interim ceo => hurry" is not valid and does not need any special atmosphere discourse knowledge

now, if bsky was employing like 1000 people, one thing that can happen in situations like this is "it's unpopular to fire 800 people so you have an interim ceo do it" but that isn't where/how bsky is operating at.

but i promise you, the eventual real CEO will matter far more than this one

it's not really "in a hurry" in the sense you're implying, which is to imply something is wrong

it's a very normal and usual thing that doesn't inherently mean anything bad

also, you know what is a great way to get a bunch of people to apply for a job?

you announce a job opening

it's a straightforward as that

1. have her wait half a year to start doing that
2. let her go do that and have someone else do the operational stuff while you look for a replacement

startups are a battle against time. if you think that jay's time is better served working on the technology and not on the operational work, do you:

bsky.app/profile/raed...

there are tons of reasons, actually. but probably the most important one is "jay gets to do what she wants to now rather than months from now."

CEO transitions take time. having a formal "this is transitionary" period is just better. which is why this pattern is common.

Yinz - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz

in non-meme poisoned form:

this new CEO job is *temporary*. the details about the person who's about to be CEO for a bit are almost irrelevant. what matters is whoever gets the actual permanent job.

all of this is very normal corporate stuff. you can't read into the tea leaves

(for the record this joke is a dark one because they disregarded my advice and i'm still kinda mad about it)

a lot of yinz have never had an executive search committee ask for your consultation and it shows

this is a super normal boring corporate thing, it means nothing, good or bad

you can just go look at her linkedin. she's held four jobs before bluesky, two of them for two years, one for a year, one for six months

i'm not far off from that position myself these days