im wendy, a pm in big tech, and im going to walk YOU through a day in my glamorous life
theres nothing like a commute to the office to get you warmed up for a day shepherding your team to build a product. i like to use my time to stretch my wings and take in the city and remember how much i believe in what i do
10am, time for standup! its nice to see the boys pretending to have made progress on what they promised theyd do yesterday
what? no, its not a costume day. 90% of SWEs are furries and we encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work!
after replying to some slack messages from 1am and updating all of my gantt charts ive got an impromptu 1:1 with the director of product
he looks chipper which is usually bad news. it turns out he had an idea for a new product direction last night after a long talk with GPT
our annual mandatory diversity training is after lunch and im in a session with my DS and his intern
i break the news to him as gently as possible that we're going to be re-goaling and whether he likes it or not the new KR is increasing the number of fonts on our landing page
at our call with sales the director neglects to show up to walk them through his new vision. sales is not happy
im not happy either but i cover for him. he'd better appreciate this (he won't)
after THAT'S over i grab an empty conference room to talk the team through the new plan requirements.
they're going to have to learn to code in esperanto. i didn't even know you could do that but i guess it is a universal language
im going to be up until 3am updating my gantt charts but you know what
fuck it
i decide to blow the rest of our morale budget on a mandatory tiki bar crawl
i turn in at 3:30am after tidying up my canopy bed
im going to be incredibly hungover tomorrow but the coffee will be hot and even if it werent id still be the only remotely responsible person in the entire org
as a PM its important to take pride in what you being to the table
if you're a former or current coworker reading this please know that i hold you in the highest regard
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the reason that nerds are unhappy about trump firing federal reserve people isnt because they particularly like those specific people
issue is that it makes the fed look beholden to the executive and this is a very bad outcome for economic stability
the fed hasnt covered itself in glory lately for sure but the counterfactual where its progressively and openly politicized is pretty much just a world of hyperinflation and impoverishment because thats a side effect of how unstable governments use politicized central banks
i think a steelman for "end the fed" is that we've left this absurdly powerful yet nigh defenseless institution sitting in plain sight like a loaded gun during a period of immensely high trust and as that period comes to a close someone is gonna make a first grab at the pistol
ok finally discovered a kind of lore i want to know about in a non clickbait way:
what one-shotted you?
eg for me it was 90s movies about how having a career and a house in the burbs is the worst thing that can ever happen to someone
i didn't realize i'd been Had until my 30s
everyone will give boomers and millennials shit about the social justice and narcissism, and rightly so. but the motherfuckers who tricked me into nearly ruining my life are genx
for those of you not familiar getting one shotted is getting wrecked on first contact with something. classic deployment attached
"everyone is the same and nations are fake" is the core dogma of the mid-late 20C liberalism that grew out of the war era. in the years since it's become a mostly-unstated and broadly-unassailable assumption of imperial policy
regrettably it is also disastrously incorrect
the history of this idea is worth studying. you can see the modern notion start to emerge in the progressive era and out of socialist thought, and gain some traction with (eg) the league of nations
ideologues might say that league failed bc it wasn't REAL world government
among socialism-inclined intellectuals, which is to say nearly all intellectuals until molotov-ribbentrop broke some out of their reveries, ww1 was understood to be a failure _caused by_ national identity
the leftist compulsion to degrade national identity in democratic countries will be the undoing of their welfare state plank, because it turns out when you remove the nation people just default to narrower identities and don't care to pay for the outgroup's well-being
you can get support for fargroups in time limited cases. there's a long history of (eg) american assistance for people on the other side of the world in disaster recovery
but duration breeds resentment, and organized charity is very hard to maintain with this sentiment
when you're talking about an outgroup for whom that resentment is ingrained and continuously salient, forget it
"multiculturalism" kills welfare states in the long run
amusingly this was one reason some of the more libertarian neoliberals supported open borders
i was disappointed that liberals did nothing in the face of the awokening. but that can at least be explained as cowardess
what's worse is that the awokening is over, they're not taking the fact that the awokening occurred as a serious problem to be guarded against going forward
one is left with the impression that either they are fine with everything that happened or they learned absolutely nothing from the experience. both of these possibilities seem disqualifying
what is the point of liberals who can't be bothered to care for liberty, one wonders