I&#x27;m probably nobody to talk having never actually held a software development management position (though I&#x27;ve been a team lead at times), but this strikes me as what I&#x27;d call &quot;programmer mentality.&quot; I&#x27;d also say he was constrained by feeling that he didn&#x27;t have the authority (or the ability to force&#x2F;take that authority) to actually make decisions. Within the scope he could control it sounds like he did what he could.<p>I also suspect that if he&#x27;d had any idea this was going to go even slightly viral he&#x27;d have anonymized it further and posted it through medium or the like.<p>I&#x27;ll note that on his website (smashcompany.com) in the About section, the link to &quot;my profile on LinkedIn&quot; is either a tragic mistake or some combination of blunt and subtle humor&#x2F;commentary (it goes to the page to edit your own public profile, nothing related to Lawrence K&#x27;s profile at all. Very reminiscent of the footer links on the RollioForce site.<p>And finally, if I ever received an email or chat&#x2F;Slack message from a CEO (or Chairman) of a company I worked for like the one he received on October 8, my two responses would be A) Is this person drunk, drugged, otherwise impaired (and do I need to get medical attention for them) and B) Holy Crap if this person is in a position of authority over me I need to get the hell out now. It&#x27;s like some kind of semi-literate verbal diarrhea and certainly nothing that should come from a decision-maker in a company.