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Comment Re:Does this need to be a meeting? (Score 2) 61

In the real world, we have to get work done with flawed, imperfect humans. If our expectation is that everyone will always read their emails carefully, we are delusional. Perfection is the enemy of good.

A person who refuses to indulge others' weaknesses, within reason, is someone who will not get far or make friends in the real world. You certainly won't make friends with *me* with that attitude. You, yes you too, have weaknesses, despite your apparent insistence on perfection.

Comment Re: no... (Score 1) 61

What if there are three approaches being pushed by three team members? Or four? Are you going to create four teams to prove out all four ways? What if you start building out all these teams, and two people in one of the teams disagrees?

The reality is, as long as a team has more than one person, there will be disagreements. Somebody has to resolve those disagreements. Your managerless-solution quickly becomes a management nightmare.

Comment Re: no... (Score 1) 61

So you have to _release_ both products (because if you don't release them, the customer never sees them) and then let the customer decide?

What does happen to the team that loses? Maybe some customers like the losing product better, and some customers like the winning product better. Now what?

And your approach wastes a LOT of money to make a point that managers aren't needed. You now have two teams doing essentially the same project, in different ways. You are essentially throwing away all the hours spent by the losing team. It would be better, in my opinion, to do good planning up front, and spend hours / dollars on only one team, following a good design from the start. No sane company is going to set up such a competitition.

Comment Re: no... (Score 1) 61

So in your scenario, who is going to determine which product is better? Wouldn't that be a...manager? And what happens when someone in your smaller team disagrees with someone else in the smaller team? No, this scenario doesn't make anything better, it just makes the groups smaller. If you have more than one person on a "team" you will have issues to resolve between team members. It's called human nature.

I actually lived through your approach once. Two dev teams were given the same assignment. The better product would win, the inferior product's team would be fired. Talk about back-stabbing and sabotage! It was by far the *worst* environment I've ever worked in. But not for long, the company plowed through $300 million in investor money and went out of business. Stupidest management decision ever.

Comment Re:ADHD does not exist (Score 1) 232

Apparently you can't deal with the truth, because every argument you just made, claimed I said something that I didn't say.

I never said the teacher was qualified to diagnose ADAH. What I did say was that the teacher might have seen sufficient signs of concern, to warrant a referral to a doctor.

I never said you *were* in the subset of parents who don't know how ugly their own children can be. Are you? You refused to listen to your teacher, and to the doctor your son saw. Those are two important clues that you might not be seeing reality.

I never said that doctors "never" rubber stamp anything. I do say it's not as common as parents claim, when a doctor diagnoses their child with a "label" the parents don't agree with.

So when you respond, how about let's stick with the truth, and not claim I said things I didn't say.

Comment Re: Game theory (Score 1) 232

Unfortunately this is true. Mental health and dubious medical diagnoses are how white people game the system.

“White people” are no better and no smarter about “gaming the system” than any other color! Dropping the assumption that any particular race is superior or inferior makes it much MUCH easier to empirically, philosophically, and humanely improve this world. The confederacy found that out the hard way.

There's not much you can do to fight it, and it's easier to go with the flow since you need to pick your battles.

That is fighting imaginary demons. Don’t forget Lincoln’s and MLK’s awesome advice: judge by individual merit - not by group identity.

Comment Re:no... (Score 1) 61

No managers, huh? How does that work when two people disagree, and can't come to an agreement? Who makes decisions about who to hire? Who decides when it's time to let somebody go, and who carries out that unpleasant task? Who decides what projects are higher priority? Who reins in executives who want everything right now? Who do you go to when you want to talk about your next pay raise?

You might have gotten rid of your managers, but I'll bet somebody is still doing all these tasks. In other words, somebody is doing the manager's job, without the title.

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