> Gravity doesn’t care whether you like it or not when you land after jumping out of a 70 story building

With one key difference - it's not a gravity. It's just currently popular and dominating style in IT corporate culture. Mainly because it worked once for few successful companies and others cargo-culted it without much thought.

There will always be value and importance to networking, human relationships and communication. Because after all we're people, not robots.

But there will also be shift and evolution in management styles, just like we notice a shift in Leetcode interviews right now (less and less of this bullshit).

Change is the true "gravity" here.

Can you change the corporate culture of the companies that pay top of market any more than you can change gravity?

Sure I could change the culture by accepting a bullshit CTO position that is a glorified developer at a YC like startup that pays less than the intern I mentored when they got their return offer at BigTech and I could get meaningless “equity”.

But if I were in a position where I wanted to maximize my comp, I would play the game and convince a company with a lot of money to give me some of that money.

I just happen to care more about work life balance and making “enough” money now.