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by ludicity 3y ago
This is so true. The only dashboard I'm confident was useful eventually became a web app in-house to support the organization's core function.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Firstly, I absolutely agree, the argument you're responding to gave me pause for a moment, then I realized it's probably nonsense in most cases and it also isn't disagreeing with me at all . If the thing I am working on do
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by ludicity 3y ago
I once worked at a place where management kept going on and on about reducing toil, but wouldn't let us use something to automate a bunch of extremely manual workloads. It eventually occurred to me that we didn't have to, because
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here once again. I have the worst possible answer for this - most data teams that I've seen (and my network is large enough through my own socialising + my blog to be reasonably confident on this) are working on dashboards that
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by ludicity 3y ago
It's slightly more complicated, and the numbers are somewhat obfuscated to hide my actual employer. You're right that these numbers are not a huge deal - that much is obvious, or we wouldn't be wasting that money. What is mor
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by ludicity 3y ago
Thank you for the feedback - I hammered this out over an hour this morning, and wasn't really expecting much readership but should have been more careful. As noted elsewhere on my blog, I'm young enough that I've only used Gi
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by ludicity 3y ago
Hello! I am the author, and you've saved me writing this out. The whole point is that you actually can't do something (and that's okay! I don't complain anymore either!). Burnout comes from believing what people are sayi
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by ludicity 3y ago
Hello, hello, I am the original poster. I had surmised why this person was doing this, but didn't want to spend ages venting about a particular person, especially in a way that might actually cause that person to realize they're r
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by ludicity 3y ago
Evennia is an awesome project, and the community is fantastic. I've been working with a blind friend over the past two years to gradually piece together a MUD (the only kind of game he's really able to play), and while we've
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Reverence for the Craft, Business, and Your Immortal Soul(ludic.mataroa.blog)
4 points by ludicity 3y ago|0 comments
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Overconfidence, and Executives as Personality Defect(ludic.mataroa.blog)
3 points by ludicity 4y ago|0 comments
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by ludicity 4y ago
Very much the conclusions I had reached myself over the past few days, where it seems that some degree of dishonesty is necessary and a lot of it depends on the people you're working with (I guess we should be nuanced by default). You&
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by ludicity 4y ago
Thanks for reading, and I'm happy you found it entertaining. Firstly, that watching senior management for signs that they know if things are bad, or if they believe their own stories, is a waste of time. Competent managers who want to
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by ludicity 4y ago
Very similar to the lesson I had taken away when writing the article. The first director you mentioned was essentially making the same mistake myself and many others make - we think that pointing out the problems honestly will allow us to j
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by ludicity 4y ago
I'm the author. I've largely worked in places where firing people is next to impossible, and my colleagues usually think the opposite - in contexts where firing people is possible, the people who lie perpetually should gradually g
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by ludicity 4y ago
I actually wrote a little disclaimer at the bottom, because this is largely true (I have some quibbles, but I'm 90% in agreement), then decided that backing down at the end of what is obviously meant to be a funny piece was terrible.
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by ludicity 4y ago
I must plead before HN that I actually didn't post this myself because I wasn't making a serious case, and was mostly just having a bit of fun. I don't want business users to feel bad about their spreadsheet use because i
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by ludicity 4y ago
You are a person of iron discipline, and I respect it. This was almost done at my current workplace, but the spreadsheets were not adequately formatted/enforced early on, and there wasn't political will to insist users re-do wor
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by ludicity 4y ago
There should be an email option at the bottom too! And thank you for the high praise!
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by ludicity 4y ago
I am going to look at this, and if it is cool I may even bring it to the attention of the capricious gods capable of buying software at my company, but seeing Excel and Data Science in the same sentence, while individually concerning, fills
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by ludicity 4y ago
Good question, I should have been clearer. I've heard that managers who can program can do some horrific micromanagement. To be clearer, when I've had a manager who both had good people skills and could program, life was pretty
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by ludicity 4y ago
This is already what I and the others I've spoken to do (who haven't given up). But, at the types of organisation I'm describing, it's near impossible. You know that Airflow instance I mentioned? Three years later, that
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by ludicity 4y ago
Every time I don't listen to Patrick McKenzie, I am filled with regret.
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by ludicity 4y ago
I agree they do exist, and this heuristic sounds sensible to me. It's the good old patio11 "go work in a profit center" situation, and I wish I had done so. I'd probably be grappling with a new existential concern, but t
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by ludicity 4y ago
Thank you! And when pressed, almost everyone I've spoken to that hasn't moved into management (if you ask management, you're asking for people who have largely self-selected into delusion, at least at these orgs that are stru
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by ludicity 4y ago
It's the only thing I can write on, because it is snappy and I have nothing to focus on other than writing.
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by ludicity 4y ago
I thought this for a while too. Nothing wrong with calling it like you see it. Suffice it to say that I've seen a lot of people try (and even succeed partially) to improve things, but all of them would be producing stuff ten times bett
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by ludicity 4y ago
Absolutely an option! I've got my own strategy out, but it seemed self-absorbed to go on about it. People don't want to hear about me specifically beyond whatever minimum lived experience is required to make my point. Plus it hasn
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by ludicity 4y ago
Yes, I considered raising this point. My work is sometimes necessary to comply with regulation, but frequently that regulation is inherently pointless. That said, this seems to be a different category of worthless. My regular work can liter
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by ludicity 4y ago
Incredibly insightful take. I need to think about this. It's absolutely the case that a C-suite Acronym person will have an idea, and suddenly the whole organisation is scrambling to pivot it. The reason that I mentioned vision is impo

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