Former staffer and BFF Guillaume Runser recently sent me a link to James Whittaker's "Why I left Google" post. I get enough email spam from well intentioned friends and family to make a Nigerian envious and usually ignore most of it (sorry Mum!), but GR's a smart dude with a stream-crossing mentality so I thought I'd risk the nano seconds required to scan the link and am glad that I did.
You'll need to push through the opening sentence (unless you're Lady Gaga's teacup, opening with "Everyone wants to know why I left" strikes me as playing fast and loose with the definition of everyone). The wince is worth the reward as James offers up three thought provoking ideas:
