'What if we forget to add very broad noncompetes to their contracts, and our employees leave for a competitor?'

'What if we do: and when they try to leave, we block this. They stay: demotivated, angry, frustrated and bitter towards their employer - us?'

'Cost and performance were the main drivers in moving on-prem [from AWS]. The team got hardware that was more than 10x as powerful as before, for a fraction of the price.' - many such realizations! newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Google search is so bad (b/c of “search” being mostly trying to avoid paid ads) that I now PAY to use an ads-free search engine.

I pay ~$100/year to use KagiHQ.

It’s like Google, but with zero ads (and the ability to block domains I don’t want).

Google before it got greedy.