watchman

And, who watches the watchman? [1] say, 1 in a thousand, of which google has 260,000 such gmail users

You can't blame a lock for not being locked, but you can blame the night watchman for not locking it. This doesn't remove blame from the intruder though.

He didn't lose his job as night watchman. You want to be a leader, you have to act the way you expect people in your company to act.

The watchman culture is a little too rampant now. I'm glad this service exists and to learn that i'm not the only person affected by it.

That said, an intravert will have to work harder at being a salesman and an extravert, at a night watchman. The degree of hardness involved isn't that high...

Wikipedia guesses at the origin of the timekeeping device "watch" name as a corruption of an Old English word for watchman, or inherited from the concept of a naval duty shift, "watch". I have no intention of "watching" my device.

A young watchman leans at a window and sees the lights of barges butting their way across a harbor, nets of red and white lanterns in a railroad yard, and a span of glooms splashed with lines of white and blurs of crosses and clusters over the sleeping city. By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

I think in an abstract and idealized sense, stuff like Valleywag serves the tech industry by providing the role of watchman and magnifying glass. But on a post-by-post basis -- and if you think Paul Carr cherry-picked his examples, go on Valleywag, they're pretty much all just awful posts of out-of-context tweets -- it fails that goal tremendously.

> who watches the watchman? There's this paranoid viewpoint that Science is this exclusive club shrouded in secrecy, a little like the Masons. They hold on to their established views despite conflicting evidence from the fringes, thus continuing their tenures, fat paychecks, international fame and ultimately control over the world. There is no watchman.