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This reminded me of something. When I was in college, I was forced to buy several incompetently-written textbooks. One of them was on death and dying. A chapter on funerary customs had in the first paragraph the observation that in most societies, when a person dies, they are removed from their home.
I'm curious which societies are not part of "most"
Sometimes it's temporary - they cremate you and bring you back in a bit more compact form factor.
There's a lot of anime and hero stories that have a speech like this, a tautology about moving forward when the characters are unsure about their actions.
The worst part is, it can be destructive. Like, when one Nazi says to another, "Hey...should we really be killing all these Jews instead of just deporting them like we originally planned?" And this kind of phrase, when given in response, is meant to inspire some form of persistence to the current course, no matter how stupid or horrible it is.
The explanation that I heard was that Hitler was originally trying to get rid of all of the Jews in the countries that he conquered, but he eventually decided that he wanted to conquer the entire planet.
You could replace this man with ChatGPT and his company would be more successful.
With the experiment that I believe Anthropic made I wouldn't even be sure of that
One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.
It's by design.
If you "best guess" up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the "real vision".
If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.
Yup, that’s why I left that job. Was sick of being berated by clients. Now I work in the games industry… I may be a masochist.
I remember borrowing a friend's MBA textbook just for laughs. I particularly remember the chapter on "Negotiating", which included a boxed section that said "Your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations."
I know someone who told me (in French) M.B.A stands for "Moins Bon qu'Avant", that translates to "less good than before".
That does make sense in a The Art of War way. There is no magic thing you can do that will automatically finish the negotiations in your favour, you need to actually use your own skills.
This reads like a loading screen tip
To shoot things press the shoot button.
"You can use your backpack to store things".
“How good you are at something will dictate how good you are at that thing.”
The MBA class
C suites are now infested with a circle jerk of MBAs, business minded people who dont understand or care about the product or how its made. MBAs are a plague, let the engineers who know a damn thing sit at the table please...
Engineering undergrad with a MBA. That's how I got my seat at the table. It's very beneficial having both perspectives. They've called me "chaotic good" because of my education and experience. 😂😂😂
Engineers: Hmm, maybe we should get someone with a bit of market knowledge to the table.
MBA: Shit, I have no clue what they're talking about. I need someone who speaks my language.
MBA 2: Man, these engineers really have no clue what we're talking about, huh.
Engineers: removed
Plenty of engineers struggle to care about the right things too though. You can witness this in Linux communities. The engineers will engage in passion-project rewrites of core systems any day of the week over fixing that one annoying UI bug that thousands of users complain endlessly about.
The key part there is that they're not paid. So working on a passion project is all that matters.
As an aside though, those core system rewrites are often undertaken by businesses rather than the individuals. A lot of businesses view Linux as a tool rather than a consumer OS, so the core systems are the only part that matters.
Y'know what, let's circle back on this, cuz at the end of the day, we're a family here.
Now, give me 50 million dollars.
when they started selling MBA degrees on the internet, it was only a matter of time for them to infiltrate office spaces with their stupid ideas and inflated egos.
Jack Welch hollowed out and destroyed one of the largest conglomerates in the world, but he was able to hide the damage until after he retired and he made a ton of money doing it.
So obviously his methods became the standard for the business world, even after GE's collapse and the countless postmortems laying the blame on him.
Also engineer here. Please, listen to engineering. I'm so tired of product coming in with ideas fully detached from reality.
At one job, they got it into their head that "our system has no concept of an account. There's just projects floating around, and nothing unifying them. We need to do a bunch of work to create this". I said to myself, that's crazy. There is an account. Every project has a foreign key relationship with it. It's just not named "account" for some reason.
Listening to me took what could've been a clusterfuck of wasted weeks into a one day find-and-replace project. Personally, I would've just left it with the slightly weird name and called it a win, but I think product needed to feel like they were adding some value somehow.
Or the time they wanted to fully rewrite the internal tool for scheduling work. We had operations people that managed the field workers schedule, using some home-grown tool written years ago and never really updated. They wanted a full rewrite. I talked to the people who actually use the thing and asked them what their biggest pain points were. Looked at the code. Yeah, one of those can be fixed today, the other in a couple days. This doesn't need to be a two month project. We did it my way and operations was delighted.
One time I wasn't in the room, and product and one less good engineer got it into their head that there's no way to tell which work orders go with which set of outputs. They thought that the output just appeared, and you couldn't tell where it came from. Unfortunately, this spun up into a "we need to rewrite the entire system!" project. Some months later (of delivering no value to anyone) there were layoffs, and at great personal cost I was able to convince them that yes, there is a foreign key, and we can make significantly smaller changes to solve the actual problems. I regret not killing that initiative earlier, but I think people wanted it as a big line item on their resume.
That's all startup land.
At the megacorp I worked at, trying to convince management that we should have automated tests is like trying to speak french to someone who only speaks italian. I think they understand some of what I'm saying, maybe, but most of it's not getting through. A good chunk of the IC engineers know the system is bad and has a bunch of "we could improve this in a day" tasks we could do, but management doesn't understand. So we keep having multi-day deploys with "omg it's broken again".
trained on, 'push a button, degree pops out'. 📜
Reminds me of Peggy Hill:
The day before Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, one of the busiest travel days of the year.
”To increase profit we need to make more money”
This was said by a C-level suite at my work. Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
Same when they interview coaches after a game.
“What do you think went wrong, and what can you do to improve it”
“Well, I think mainly our problem was, we didn’t score more points than the opposing team. That was a major contributing factor to our loss. I think in the future, we need to focus more on scoring more points, and not allowing the opposing team to score more points than us.”
I know Scott Adams is not someone to be promoted for his personal views, but Dilbert is so much a reflection of reality it's unreal.
It's because Adams just drew the stories other people sent him.
And the stuff he saw himself. He mentioned in an interview once that he kept his office job for a long time after making it big with Dilbert because he got so much material.
This is like the tips on a loading screen.
"If you are dying often, try using healing potions" "Try focusing on an enemy's weak points"
The more common way these guys increase profit is by lowering costs, and the only way they've figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people, so this is actually a step in the right direction at least.
Now I'm wondering whether their solution is to appeal to more customers or to raise prices. What am I saying. Of course it's the latter.
They ended up laying off a bunch of people either way. Still unprofitable though.
I choose to believe this is some sort of shibboleth
like throwing the most inane business speak at each other somehow confirms that they are a real business person and not some guy in a suit that would never think to say something so vapid and devoid of actual meaning
Why can I not see so many pictures on here?
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