This article is an aggregation of cliches with no particular insight. Words like “drone” and “cowboy” are used in a way completely removed from any useful cont

This article is an aggregation of cliches with no particular insight. Words like “drone” and “cowboy” are used in a way completely removed from any useful context. Neither real drones nor real cowboys resemble them, even metaphorically. Rather than insight, each concept is based on a fashionable trope. The tropes are strung together. It’s the essay equivalent of sample code. Few people are all creative and unstructured. The ones that are can’t hold jobs. But also, few people in the technical world can survive by “following processes” since all the processes are wrong. No one has the patience and skill to specify a real and also effective process. Instead we proceed via heuristics. We all do. “Cowboys” are not people who create trouble with their creativity. Instead ad hoc problem-solving may or may not have disruptive affects, and people who wish for no trouble are like children wishing it would never rain.