The recurring theme consists of blame. 60% of the energy is spent actively avoiding work, and 40% of the energy is devoted to blaming others. Moreover, daily conflicts with the board, where they claim they want the company to succeed, often involve nepotism in some form - hiring consultancy firms they own or receiving kickbacks. Modern corporate governance of hiring independent directors has…
It took me a while to realize that most people who have others reporting to them want two things from their "subordinates": A definite answer Proof that they have done their due diligence. Proving you have done the work does not mean you have to explain yourself. You are trusted with a task, and you are expected to execute it. In org-setting everything is purely utilitarian. In casual interaction,…
I do not expect anyone to read anything I write. Writing to me is more of a meditation, where I dump my ideas and get started for the day. Forget grammar and etiquette. I write in keywords, and you make your own interpretation. The polished "work" I do for a living that it is inherently incentivized to sell you something. Most things that take effort to write often have an incentive to sell…
*by AI I mean LLM based conversational AI. Like always, we paid an obscene amount of money to join several software conferences hosted by big tech, big software and big cloud. We are actually partners with all the major software and cloud platforms. In these events, companies will fly you out and pay for your stay. Plus, there are marketing costs. So, attending conferences like this usually ends…
How high is the stress I am talking about? You are commuting all you think is that you might snap today, you might quit today. That is what I am calling a high-stress work environment. You know after a certain point the job becomes disposable and you are making a list in your head of who you are going to say "fuck you" to as you storm out of the building. The reality in this environment is that…