How picking up my stuff from the Google office gave me closure — When we evacuated the office back in March 2020, I couldn’t have imagined what was waiting around the corner and, stupidly, I left a bunch of personal stuff at my desk. Today, 18 months later, Google has finally allowed me to come in and collect my s**t. Curbside, obviously.

A collection of quotes from current and former employees about their struggles at Google (A SEQUEL to “The Devil Wears Patagonia Swag”) — I had been so focused on staring at the rough sea in front of me, I didn’t realize I wasn’t on an island at all! Behind me there was an entire continent of people waiting for the same lifeboat… 👇 Skip to the collection of quotes The Beginning of my Second Life

How therapy, vulnerability and cathartic writing saved me, and what happened right before I hit ‘send’ (A PREQUEL to “The Devil Wears Patagonia Swag”) — The shift in my narrative started when my doctor told me (with some extremely refreshing realism and much needed directness): “Marco, you are burned out, but you are not clinically anxious or depressed…you just have a shitty job!” BOOM! That changed everything for me. I wasn’t the weak, broken, incapacitated…

Why leaving Google after 10 years has been way harder than joining (and the only way to rescue my mental health, get my confidence back, and free my full potential) — “I soon realized I wasn’t broken, I was simply spinning too fast, inside the wrong, incompatible machine. So, I took one of the most important decisions of my life…I stopped spinning!” Preface I don’t speak the truth. I don’t even speak my truth. Nobody can. Truth is objective, rational and irrefutable…