Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, so more CISOs then?
That's the secret, no. Just people to insulate the liability.
That's the CISO joke.
The Last Days of the Managerial Class
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Re: The Last Days of the Managerial Class
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> at some point an economy can't bear the dead weight of people pulling down six figure salaries by moving some javascript or PowerPoint slides around, while the base of the economy (industry, farming, energy production, transportation) dies from lack of investment. What if the base of the economy is well-paid power point rangers buying stuff? Because that’s what most of our economy is: consumer spending. It’s some s…
> What if the base of the economy is well-paid power point rangers buying stuff? Because that’s what most of our economy is: consumer spending. Those "well-paid power point rangers" can't be the base of the economy: properly understood, they're an exploitative/parasite class sitting more towards the top of the pyramid.
Are we talking about base in an architectural sense or base as in their spending actually does underpin most of the economy.
One of these is relevant to the conversation.
Re: The Last Days of the Managerial Class
#33> The new economy increasingly rewards people who build things, like write code, design products, analyze data, and conduct research, rather than those who manage the people who build things. I've been hearing about this 'creator economy' , 'the great flattening'and all the for a while. Meanwhile managment is stronger than ever at Meta both in numbers and in power. I don't think "this time will be different"
Feels a lot more like power was concentrated again and the bottom line managers and middle managers are being cast out. This aligns with corporate history in America going back decades. Like how many of these people in the “management” class are actually managers in the sense that they are given agency over resources and how they are deployed vs supervisors who are just there to make sure the real manager’s(usually a…
Software projects benefit from growth in interconnected scale. Ability to maintain cohesion is the limiting factor to such growth. The stable state thus is often lacking.
Fast food restaurant chains scale horizontally and scope of each establishment is limited by geography, thus agency can be maintained at the ground level.