Exceptional article on how the "bad apples" stupidity looks like in tech
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Fabio Cecin
Mar 9, 2015, 8:13:56 PM3/9/15
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On Secretly Terrible Engineers
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/
I'm shocked that there is someone else that can see this.
...
Us computer programmer nerds are controlled by the apparatus of
"business" quite easily.
As a class of people, coders are trivially pitched against each other,
and hence controlled and squeezed at will. We're always suspected of
doing something "wrong" or being "slow" or being "perfectionists" or
"not understanding business" or "being wasteful" or "not communicating
enough" or "communicating too much" or ... and instead of pushing THAT
back, we take that violence and we pass it on, and we start
"suspecting" and judging others. Triviality of oppression ensues.
This stems from too many things to list, but they come from what
underlies the "profession," which as the good scouts that we all are,
we never question.
Fabio
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/
I'm shocked that there is someone else that can see this.
...
Us computer programmer nerds are controlled by the apparatus of
"business" quite easily.
As a class of people, coders are trivially pitched against each other,
and hence controlled and squeezed at will. We're always suspected of
doing something "wrong" or being "slow" or being "perfectionists" or
"not understanding business" or "being wasteful" or "not communicating
enough" or "communicating too much" or ... and instead of pushing THAT
back, we take that violence and we pass it on, and we start
"suspecting" and judging others. Triviality of oppression ensues.
This stems from too many things to list, but they come from what
underlies the "profession," which as the good scouts that we all are,
we never question.
Fabio
Evan Cofsky
Mar 14, 2015, 4:16:54 PM3/14/15
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My favorite thing happening from the less thoughtful programmers now when they don’t agree with something is “But what business requirement is driving this?”.
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Fabio Cecin
Mar 14, 2015, 5:26:47 PM3/14/15
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Evan Cofsky <ev...@theunixman.com> wrote:
> My favorite thing happening from the less thoughtful programmers now when
> they don’t agree with something is “But what business requirement is driving
> this?”.
"Business Requirement" is a fun one to de-construct. Logically,
> My favorite thing happening from the less thoughtful programmers now when
> they don’t agree with something is “But what business requirement is driving
> this?”.
there's no counterargument to "but what does the MASTERS want??"
within a Servant role. So it is required to step out of the role and
re-assume the "I'm just a person, like you" identity to address that
kind of question at the level where it can go somewhere useful -- and
the other person has to do that, too.
If you do try to do that kind of context de-stacking, say, in a
meeting, you're awarded the loopy treatment of "religious"
self-justifying thought: "... but why would the MASTERS be interested
in questioning what the MASTERS want? That's not our role, as Servants
... that we are ... right ... you're just being crazy ... you have not
learned yet ... I was just like you ... Big Brother will fix you,
don't worry ... they take good care of us here ..."
Fabio
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