Google scientist Slav Petrov-adjacent voice: tech thought-leadership circuit is an echo chamber
docmilanfar · x · 2026-11-10
Shinan Milanfar, a Google research scientist, calls out the tech thought-leadership circuit: "More thinking and doing, fewer podcasts and panels." He argues it has become an echo chamber where a tiny fraction of original ideas is endlessly regurgitated by the same cast using the same talking points — mostly noise.
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