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Nobody knows anything The difficult paradoxes have not been resolved No-one can say this loudly because there is no safe space

lifeisstillgood 3y ago
Nobody Knows Anything For a given level of complexity in an organisation, talk to any 10 experts on the subject in the organisation (ie how does the foobar process work) and you will find blind men describing an elephant. All technically correct but all missing important parts The paradoxes At some point an organisation acquired or grew an antogonistic part. Both cannot really exist but both have not been removed. Think either Google search vs Google ad sales (if you return perfect search terms each time, you get less page views hence less ad impressions. Make search worse get more ads served). Or simply other non core businesses. Pretty much every non-tech mega corp is really dozens and dozens of smaller businesses with a shared treasury so they can ride out each others ups and downs. But one or two businesses are really carrying oat of the load. Anyway, you can find paradoxes or conflicts of interest in all businesses and badly aligned incentives hurt everyone. Someone should fix that. Not me I don't have the power (indeed usually only the orignal centralmfounder has power to) Safe spaces Yeah these don't exist. If you ain't upbeat publically you are seen as trying to pull everyone else under. So how are problems acknowledged let alone fixed? Dunno. What would really help would be free speech, open conversations and discussions based on data that can inform policy and provide impetus to chnage. we (kinda) have this in western journalism / media (including social media). But absolutely no large corporation anywhere has a open discussion area where different factions can raise their concerns. there are of course political infighting amoungst the powerful elites of the corporation but that's not the same thing - they might even be accurate about the problems but no one else knows. Democracy matters Sorry this was supposed to be about devops - and it kinda is. Most large corps have some devops thing going on where "this time we will fix it all for everyone" - but has there been open conversations with data supporting it from all parts of the org? oh come on.

lifeisstillgood 3y ago

Nobody Knows Anything For a given level of complexity in an organisation, talk to any 10 experts on the subject in the organisation (ie how does the foobar process work) and you will find blind men describing an elephant. All technically correct but all missing important parts The paradoxes At some point an organisation acquired or grew an antogonistic part. Both cannot really exist but both have not been removed. Think either Google search vs Google ad sales (if you return perfect search terms each time, you get less page views hence less ad impressions. Make search worse get more ads served). Or simply other non core businesses. Pretty much every non-tech mega corp is really dozens and dozens of smaller businesses with a shared treasury so they can ride out each others ups and downs. But one or two businesses are really carrying oat of the load. Anyway, you can find paradoxes or conflicts of interest in all businesses and badly aligned incentives hurt everyone. Someone should fix that. Not me I don't have the power (indeed usually only the orignal centralmfounder has power to) Safe spaces Yeah these don't exist. If you ain't upbeat publically you are seen as trying to pull everyone else under. So how are problems acknowledged let alone fixed? Dunno. What would really help would be free speech, open conversations and discussions based on data that can inform policy and provide impetus to chnage. we (kinda) have this in western journalism / media (including social media). But absolutely no large corporation anywhere has a open discussion area where different factions can raise their concerns. there are of course political infighting amoungst the powerful elites of the corporation but that's not the same thing - they might even be accurate about the problems but no one else knows. Democracy matters Sorry this was supposed to be about devops - and it kinda is. Most large corps have some devops thing going on where "this time we will fix it all for everyone" - but has there been open conversations with data supporting it from all parts of the org? oh come on.