@sokoloff had a point i greatly love, in a post about being asked to work weekends. they said they love having major nerd out time on the weekends, unencumbered

@sokoloff had a point i greatly love, in a post about being asked to work weekends. they said they love having major nerd out time on the weekends, unencumbered by the typical work bullshit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862513 there's a chorus of agreements and heck yeahs. i love the highlight about a company that tries to let developers find their own interest, that tries to create autonomy. this strategy of keeping the good people socially unblocked, giving them interesting problems, letting them do tbeir thing... it's the only winning move. most organizations quickly disempower their employees, create reistance to good, and there's no reconciling it. we can keep padding the blows but the dissonance is going to keep growing, the drift between the organization which is asserting it's legitemacy while ongoingly doing delegitimizing & pointless acts. this isnt the Gervais Principle exactly, but it's quite close. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... it's problematic that we can sometimes all be right but have different conflicting views. dealing with other engineers is often like this- they actually somewhat get (& can genuinely assess) what another engineer is saying (unlike many other relationships an engineer might have) but there's different biases, different priorities, different comfort zones for different people. i generally feel like normative & safe & simple wins a lot, and a lot of times i get it, but a lot of times i want to stand up and scream- we are the geeks. we were supposed to be winning against the normie world, we were going to do better, go deepe, see & understamd further. dont reduce us to such normative & unambitious boringness, dont accept mediocrity. be bold, try for better! but conservative sensemaking sells. it's much easier to socialize, to beat down better. i strobgly espouse democratic systems, but i also think, even when we do come together & vote, and individual still needs a lot of liberty, a lot of permission to try their thing anyways. perhaps/ideally in parallel. most organizations have an urge to commit, a desire to decide & pick, and i think a lot is lost in morale & just as much again in limiting what the org sees, in refusing experimentation & contest.