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I don't think it's a lack of will. It is more an environment that is overwhelming most peoples capacity of will, as well as simply just material circumstances that make all those c…

Completely agree. I think the fundamental problem, is that the public facing internet is kind of like electricity or water - it is a utility, that isn't inherently monetizeable. So…

When you draw the line, for both investors and owners, the unit of value is indeed dollars. The goal is to maximise the amount of money you make (subject to some constraints of cou…

It's interesting when you see tech people trying to reason about concepts that have been thoroughly discussed and rediscussed, without said tech people seemingly having any backgro…

Im at work, and a 20 minute video is just the thing I need to pass the time

bones, seeds etc. can fossilize

I think a large organisation absolutely can be agile... but you will have to rethink what organisations are and how they work, dispense with things like orgcharts, and the way that…

The late David Grabber had a great book about this - Bullshit Jobs. And when you draw the line, we do keep a lot of work and a lot of jobs around purely because if we don't a lot o…

The problem is that there are a loooot of ethical implication on using your own personal data in the first place, where that goes, who has access to it, how is it handled, and so o…

OMG, pretty much a lot of what I have personally been through. But the problem is deeper and goes beyond a company not knowing what to do with someone that does ML/Data Science ...…

> The idea was always build something impactful and make it as profitable as possible via fulfilling your company's mission. Nah, the idea was always to make a lot of money. It was…

Quite the opposite. In many ways employers are like tenants - they rent out the position to you and in return cash in a certain part of the value you produce. Just like with landlo…

The two are sides of the same coin and both are founded in the need of capitalism to make people work more so more profits can be made and more surplus extracted.

Duelling was very much going on in the mid 19th century, tho ...

I think both the rebuttal and the original articles are good, but talk about different things. The original one seems to talk about the way Agile tends to be done, especially via t…

There is also what Stafford Beer writes about when discussing viable systems - the goal for most organisations, is not their stated goals, but survival and perpetuating the system.…

Oh, there is definitely something to that. There are people, not just managers, in general who for one reason or another _want_ someone to take charge, be responsible and tell ever…

IMO the main problem is in the very way organisations are structured - it is about power, and people (really meaning management) want to achieve good enough results, given that the…

IDK, from multiple accounts Amazon is an absolute burning garbage bin of a mess for everyone that works in it.

> (twelve years ago! And if you go and read some old management cybernetics you see all that stuff back in the fucking 60s, 80 years ago. I think you absolutely hit the nail on the…

And in big corporations it isn't very different. There used to be theory of management and of organisation, that somehow got lost along the way, with only vestiges popping up here …

No-one has free trade. Most of the time free trade agreements are made in a way that clearly benefits one side, and are an expression of power as much as a fleet with aircraft carr…

To be fair, CEOs are also kinda useless... on a more serious notes, these consultants are more like priests of capital, there to prosletize whatever new cargo-cult framework is pop…

Dividents are political, as well as stuff like who owns the company and executive policy and rewards and so on. We just tend to not talk about it a lot, or even see it as a politic…

Definitely not. Computer engineers are famously humble and rational