Very accurate (at least wrt my experience) yet so sad. It’s unfathomable how we ended up being maneuvered into accepting this as an “upgrade” to how we practice

Very accurate (at least wrt my experience) yet so sad. It’s unfathomable how we ended up being maneuvered into accepting this as an “upgrade” to how we practice our profession, build things, solve problems. For many reasons, it doesn’t feel sane and humane to impose this way of working on employees without their consent. The tech space has always had some cult-like, belief-driven practices, but I think we used to have more diversity in terms of working cultures and conventions, which made it easier to find an option that better fit your values and way of thinking. Things are becoming very uniform, at a pace that could compete with dystopian fiction, where all of us are coerced into gathering around an “absolute” truth or at least operating according to one.