hey, i’m a top tech leader! wait, no i’m not…

19 Sep 2008

this is a snapshot of my inbox from this morning. “sympa” is our internal mail list something or other. sometimes i get randomly added to various mailing lists, like “sunnyvale-managers” or “building-f” or some such. so getting added to random mailing lists is nothing new, though it does put some label on your head.

so this morning, i noticed the first email (at the bottom) that i was added to a list called “top-tech-leaders”. kinda cool, i figured, being called a “top” tech leader. then a few minutes after that, i was removed from that list. i’ve seen that happen before; someone creates a list, makes a mistake, then removes everyone from it. then 18 minutes later, i’m added to “tech-leaders” (note the lack of “top”).

for the rest of the day, i waited for the removal from “tech-leaders” and being added to “bottom-dwellers” or just “tech” some such. so far, i’m still a tech-leader.