I should have thrown myself in front of a train, instead of throwing myself under a bus.

If you have a troubled project, and you add more people, you have a bigger troubled project.

It’s a common trap for project managers … and in fact some pretty high brow projects blew up because of this.

When you are called in front of the board, and they say:

“Hey, your project is late, we get it, it’s not your fault, but we have to deliver on the 1st of the month. - and so we’re giving you our 10 best men to get it done”

I can tell you, it takes a certain amount of testicular fortitude to say “That won’t work”. More than I had at the time , in fact.

Cos batteries lasted about a week before they had to power 5” super bright LCDs

I miss the designs. Nokia, sony, Motorola…. All trying stuff.

We gave up a lot to carry these black mirrors around.

New word for old phenomena

My god the media really love him don’t they ?

They can’t quit.

Please treat this as an explanation, and not an apology for big tech. If you work tech, or are thinking about, understand the rules of the game :

1. First, a new skill goes hot - maybe functionally superior, may just be a trend. In tech, it’s always the new shiny.

2. Demand for skills outstrips supply

3. Salaries go up !

4. Big tech flex, offer big money to hoover up the talent. Sometimes it’s for projects, sometimes it’s just to keep them out of the hands of competition, in case the trend becomes a standard

5. Time passes

6. Chasing big salaries, lots of people acquire the skill.

7. Supply outstrips demand, skill becomes a commodity.

8. Salaries come down

9. Big Tech is still paying huge salaries, for skills that may have stopped trending, but at the very least - are now available at market at a much lower rate. If you include globalisation, it could be 30% of what they are paying.

10. The high salary hires get cut, because there’s a new skill trending, or, the same skill is now available at much lower rate .

11. Everyone is shocked !

This has been tech workers life cycle for at least 30 years, and I don’t see it changing

Inglish

Show us then.

… um……Express is also owned by Kape

Most of the money goes to US weapons manufacturers. The weapons manufacturers are very big political donors.

You can create all the hoo har you want, to “energise your base”, but when to music stops and it’s time to vote , you do as you are told and get that public money into hands of the defence contractors as quickly as you can.

MTG found this out yesterday when she was publicly called an idiot : unhinged rant about Jewish space lasers ? No problemo. Put $90bn of weapons money at risk ? You’re a lunatic.

This is an apology to the arms industry donors .

What a surprise.

I don’t have evidence- but I strongly suspect not everyone there is quite who they purport to be.

It’s just a feeling, based on similar experiences, but I suspect some people are there in a professional capacity.

The thing reddit should have clamped down on, was the careers mods - there are a dozen or more people, modding 80 plus sub. That’s never going to be healthy.

I used to be able to write it off as misguided young men…but there is a bit of a cabal of mods than run lots of the UK subs. I’ve had multiple accounts banned.

Uk subreddit ?

She hasn’t caught up to the fact that any protestations around money for Ukraine was just political theatre.

Any moment now, she’ll get a call from the Whips office, to remind her that once all the hootin and hollerin is done and it’s time to vote, the golden rule applies ;

you never vote against giving public money to party donors especially when they are from the US arms industry - which is where most of the money will end up.

Indeed ! This Would be much easier to take seriously if Sundar hadn’t meet with Sunak, Modi, Biden et al. In the first year or so since getting the job.

No need to be quite so cloak and dagger mate, it fairly obviously to any one who pauses to think.

People have been calling out the problems of corporate oligarchy for more than a decade. This is merely part of that .

It’s systemic risk, not merely technical

I feel like they are so close to an epiphany……