“The Current Tech Puzzle (With Diverse Takes)”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-303-the-current-tech-puzzle-with
My position for quite a few years has been that most modern managers and executives are outright incompetent at their actual jobs and their only skills lie in finance games. Software, additionally, coasts on either oligopoly rents or enormous margins ('cuz non-rival and non-exclusive)
So, I'm not surprised the industry has mismanaged itself into a crisis with layoffs, overcomplicated processes, and pervasive uncertainty.
@baldur Every time I read these sorts of articles - and this one is no exception - I am left concluding that the fundamental problem that people aren't recognizing is a lack of agency over one's work.
That's exemplified by the sense of constantly being pulled in all directions that a lot of people report, but it honestly goes much deeper than that, and calls into question the fundamental hierarchical power structures in most organizations.
"With responsibility should come agency and vice versa" really *should* be the primary guiding principle, and yet it so often goes ignored...
