three suited men in my coffeeshop. one of them just said, "my personal idea of progress is moving things forward," which is actually just the definition. everyone's nodding. guys like this are in charge of every industry and it's clearly why trains explode
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[–] 32 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's by design.

    If you "best guess" up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the "real vision".

    If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    One of my old bosses complained I asked too many questions about requirements. They'd give me poorly defined tasks and I'd be like "what do you want it to do when the user has no name in the system?". Then they'd get annoyed.

    But if I just made a decision, like sorting my ID, they'd be like "that's stupid why didn't you sort by sign up date?"

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