“Tools drive culture; if the tool makes an easy thing hard, the organization completely reorients itself around that thing being hard. Employees allow the company to treat them in all these undignified ways—you're a sacred human being, and you should be able to just do things. You have to restore a sense of self-worth and dignity to the strongest engineers. They shouldn't have to schedule 10 meetings and write 10 docs. They have to feel like superheroes.” @natfriedman @collision

Google is definitely changing how it factors in information from self-promotional listicles. In most examples I am now seeing, Google may still cite the self-promotional listicle, but it skips the brand recommending itself as #1 in the response. However, it might still recommend the other brands mentioned in the listicle (your competitors) See the example below for how Grednet, Fonteva, Payfunnels and Neon One's listicles are cited in the answer, but none of their brands are recommended in the response. (Racklet is the one exception here) I will have more info coming out on this soon.