In some parts of the facility, workers are recognized by older folks who are aging with poise. That connection looks mutual.
In other parts, memory care, you are never recognized by the patients. Prepare for combative, confused ill people; your job depends on not treating them like animals.
I see adult children visiting their parent, who doesn't recognize them, and wouldn’t understand that $115,000/year isn’t entirely paid by the state.
Best comment here. I’ve never met someone with that status choosing to be an engineer. And I’m unsurprised that an upper class executive is preoccupied about $30/day in labor margin.
I’m in a heavily-regulated sector, fully remote. If left alone, our junior exec:
- needs a digest of where chat activity is hottest. Maybe he lurks, occasionally he gets into conversations about what’s going on in another department.
- needs some warning if the Microsoft systems are under attack or strain. The Linux systems have not needed attention; the jargon is unfamiliar.
- occasionally brings up hypothetical radical changes in strategy. I think of these as multivariate tests. Maybe I reply, “Plenty of Kubenetes developers available right now” might communicate that some small team would be ahead of us on some solved problem.
I’m surprised that:
- he has no concern that competition even exists. No awareness that our competition demos at conferences; why they’d choose to spend time that way.
- no interest in the big accounts we don’t have. If it would take a big lift, what would engineering need? If it would take a small lift, what non-engineering is blocking? No interest.
- person-to-person networking is effective at all. I just can’t imagine any value in two execs meeting without hours of preparation.
I’ve seen BI tooling around each of these. I wonder if a daily “facts of our department” slide to begin each meeting, if that would replace/augment 51% of visible exec.
I don’t think so. The article is about a manager who thinks in systems and an individual contributor preoccupied with process work. The GP comment gets closer to incentives.
The wording in the posted article, which is elevator-pitch. The audience has money, ambitious, mercenary attitude, and proximity to big problem that must be either solved or resold.
Rather, humans involved have looked at this problem and in a few cases succeeded. And in many cases, shelved it and returned to process cardiology, Ugandan infrastructure, etc.
In other parts, memory care, you are never recognized by the patients. Prepare for combative, confused ill people; your job depends on not treating them like animals.
I see adult children visiting their parent, who doesn't recognize them, and wouldn’t understand that $115,000/year isn’t entirely paid by the state.
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