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Easy != simple
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Deadly Lifestyle: Even neanderthals knew about ornamentation and figurative art, but paintings of actual people, created by communities along the Nile River, some 8,000 years ago, signaled the rise of more advanced, stable institutions.
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- The mandarin is always over-impressed with his own intelligence, even if his role doesn’t involve using it.
- Bureaucrats are also almost universally reviled for their lack of accountability and the lack of pride in their work.
- Jobs was an arch bureaucrat; he innovated absolutely nothing, but he was excellent at running a bureaucracy and making it do useful things through terror and bullying. He was also a good salesman. Woz was the main innovator and probably has two standard deviations more intellectual horsepower than Jobs did.
- Bureaucrats are socially necessary.
In the end the power and glory of a bureaucrat comes from the ignorance of his believers. Both are still only bricks of a pyramid, even though they might appear of different quality.
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Almost 50, I remain philosophical because I spent about the first ~45 of them living without Youtube. Did that well enough. — https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
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- Bare programming abilities - ability to produce code
- Experience - ability to resort to proven solutions
- Knowledge - some theory helps
- Low level - understand how the machine works
- Simplicity
- No willingness to sacrifice - often complexity is generated when there is no willingness to recognize that a non fundamental goal of a project is accounting for a very large amount of design complicity
- Perfectionism - biggest barrier to deliver things fast (seeing what matters and what not)
- Ability and possibility to focus
- Debugging skills