The Need to Remove Bad Management
Feel like in America the game has become &quot;how can I make the organization work for me&quot; rather the other way around; we&#x27;re a long way off from Kennedy&#x27;s speech. Just fundamental misalignment of interests everywhere: PMs gaming JIRA, so-called &quot;senior engineers&quot; squashing anything that exposes their mediocrity and the fact that they&#x27;re just punching JIRA tickets one paycheck to the next instead of <i>modeling the problem</i>, even engineers and consultants padding their resume in one org building keyword architectures as a launchpad for working somewhere else with a better salary. Everyone knows it, but its impolite&#x2F;immature to point out the bullshit explicitly. Shut up, shit down, and listen to yet another round of empty hand wringing about <i>values and culture</i> at the all-hands meeting when the truth is there aren&#x27;t any; delude ourselves we&#x27;re doing something at all.<p>These infrastructure &#x27;managers&#x27; don&#x27;t strike me as any different. It&#x27;s a blight on American culture and its only getting worse the bigger the inequality gap. Everyone&#x27;s trying to find the parachute to jump out of the burning plane that&#x27;s in freefall diving to the ground.<p>The (ultimately false) class antagonism narrative of &#x2F;r&#x2F;WSB that the game really is rigged is a fitting end to a decade that at the outset told everyone they could be a unicorn (or enjoy part of the spoils) if they could deliver a cash cow to elite investors if they only pulled up their sleeves and grinded through.<p>The Governor of Texas just got on Hannity to bad mouth a New Green Deal as people <i>died</i> in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold.