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Nothing gets sold or fixed without people who know how it's built.




cue in: programming as theory building [1] or building systems as theory building, ie, Mental causal models of how and why things work the way they do. Mental models live in people's heads and walk out of the door when they do. Management learns this the hard way [2].

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

[2] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980221072512635117


> Management learns this the hard way [2]

I don't get this. Why is Musk tweeting a fake quote and why are you posting it? What does it signify?


I assume it was not labeled as fake when the OP sent it.

But it is more important to keep the PIP, stack-ranking, ladder-climbing game running than keeping the people /s



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