Every so often it hits me again that tech doesn’t just reward incompetence, it rewards _destructive_ incompetence.

Like, sure, letting Blogger wither, die and rot is a bad management, but destroying LiveJournal? Special kind of incompetence. Same with properties like Movable Type, TypePad, Posterous and Pownce (both popular early micro blogging service). All destroyed through half-baked management by execs that are still highly regarded by the industry