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by randomNumber7 461 days ago
I agree with your gut feeling and add that to me it feels im surrounded by f*ing Zombies.

It's not that they are too stupid, but they don't even __try__ to think.

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My boss regularly criticizes me for thinking too much. Sometimes I stop and think if this is the best way to implement something, and then suddenly receive a lecture about velocity, moving fast, being efficient, being ok with pushing bugs to prod, and all that shebang.

Our society has a pathological obsession with productivity.

> then suddenly receive a lecture about velocity, moving fast, being efficient

I like to give the opposite kind of lecture, like when someone refused to even consider alternative ways of solving a problem. Some phrases I like to throw around: "you just wasted 2 days of work, because you skipped 30min of research at the start", or "it's arrogant to assume, you'll find the perfect solution on the very first try".