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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
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Valerij Markus: Pozorovať je vždy horšie a zložitejšie, než sa toho priamo účastniť. Pretože z diaľky s tým nemôžete nič robiť.
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Ted Gioia: Crisis of trust. If your job was to destroy access to reliable information in our society, how would you do it? 30 steps…
And one more: Scarcest thing in the world