throwawayfks

I worked at a place once where the process was "Quit thinking, and have a meeting where everyone speculates about what it might be." "Everyone" included all the nontechnical staff to whom the computer might as well be magic, and all the engineers who were sitting there guessing and as a consequence not at a keyboard looking.

I don't miss working there.

I read this book and took this advice to heart. I don't have a brass bar in the office, but when I'm about to push a button that could cause destructive changes, especially in prod, my hands reflexively fly up into the air while I double-check everything.

Don't confuse them with facts: everyone knows that "socialist" means "left-ish thing I don't like". And in Starmer's case, the key word is "left-ish". Maybe "left-ish-ish-ish".