This is a fantastic headline and a good writeup, but ... why?
Perhaps it's cheaper than a psychologist, but in the process of being "stretched so thin" why are you spending time and effort into something that won't materially help you.
Dude, you have 30 days left. Don't be one of those football teams that gives up with :30 left on the clock. If you're going to lose anyway, throw the ball into the fucking end zone and try your hardest until the game's officially over.
Use your name. Tell us and the world about your company. Ask for ideas and help. Take advantage of this medium to try and turn it around with a Hail Mary pass instead of quitting early. There may be plenty of time for psychoanalysis in August, so what have you got to lose?
There are already 148 people on HN who care enough to comment. And thousands of readers, all of whom are tech savvy and perhaps more. You just never know.
Even if it fails, you'll go down a fighter instead of an anonymous blogger bemoaning his bad fortune. Which would you rather be?
I know I'm reading a Google translation, but the story seems weak.
It's a real newspaper, but we've got an article with an unknown source, about a girl with no last name, landing in an unnamed city on an unnamed date. There's no statement from any authority and no way to corroborate any part of this.
It's one step above this story that I heard from my best friend, whose cousin's mom totally said ...
Many of the comments here debate whether the news media should be reporting about his lack of degree or other facts about him.
Consider the corollary, though. Should the media be omitting parts of his life or credentials? We have a man who took a significant unilateral action and as we debate that action and the proper response to it, issues like his motivations and qualifications need to be reported, not hidden.
Given the magnitude of the revelations, Snowden himself shouldn't be the media's primary focus, but information on cell phone data grabs and PRISM for everyone except his leakees is very hard to come by.
We're at the early stages of this debate and we're just scratching the surface.
I agree with the comments here that spread the blame past this author.
I manage a large number of people at a news .com site and know that screw-ups are always a combination of two factors: people & systems.
People are human and will make mistakes. We as upper management have to understand that and create systems, of various tolerance, that deal with those mistakes.
If you're running a system allowing a low-level kid to erase your data, that was your fault.
I'd never fire someone for making a stupid mistake unless it was a pattern.
Imagine you went a restaurant where as you ate, the valet not only parked your car, but filled it with ... for free. A 15 gallon fill-up would only cost 90¢, plus valet time. Bring on the carne mechada.
It's not a whack with a baton, but government authorities shouldn't call someone to wrongly warn him that his actions might be harassment.
Even if it's libel, that's what lawyers and the civil court system is for.