Over my ten-year tenure in Big Tech, I’ve witnessed conflicts that drove exceptional people out, hollowed out entire teams, and hardened rifts between massive organizations long after any business rationale, if there ever was one, had faded.

The conflicts I explore here are not about strategy, conflicts of interest, misaligned incentives, or structural failures. Nor are they about money, power, or other familiar human vices.

They are about identity. We shape and reinforce it over a lifetime. It becomes our strongest armor - and, just as often, our hardest cage.

Full text: Why Big Tech Leaders Destroy Value — When Identity Outlives Purpose

My two previous reddits in the Tech Bro Saga series:

• Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight - a noir-toned piece on how pressure, ambiguity, and internal competition turn routine decisions into zero-sum battles.
• Big Tech Performance Review: How to Gaslight Employees at Scale - a sardonic look at why formal review systems often substitute process for real leadership and honest feedback.

No prescriptions or grand theory. Just an attempt to give structure to a feeling many of us recognize but rarely articulate.