Bullshit jobs once again. I don’t know. These companies are complex systems.
He is writing as if the engineers all knew how to fix the systems, but were just powerless to do that. But I’ve also seen projects lead by engineers that only added to the overall complexity.
There is a paradox in this - the people who seem the most confident about fixing the systems usually only make things worse. Chesterton fences and stuff.
This article triggers me because everybody who reads it will always believe that they would fix the mess if only they got the power, but in practice when they get power they would only add new complexity to the whole mess.
People generally do have some idea how to fix complicated systems have have endemic problems. The reason they don't is that the company considers the capitalism going up faster NOW to be way more important than it going up faster in the future.
He is writing as if the engineers all knew how to fix the systems, but were just powerless to do that. But I’ve also seen projects lead by engineers that only added to the overall complexity.
There is a paradox in this - the people who seem the most confident about fixing the systems usually only make things worse. Chesterton fences and stuff.
This article triggers me because everybody who reads it will always believe that they would fix the mess if only they got the power, but in practice when they get power they would only add new complexity to the whole mess.