"If it were fun, they wouldn't pay us to do it" - I don't understand why my enjoyment of it would render a good or service I provide worthless. I've never enjoyed any job for more than, say, half an hour a month, even though I work in a field in which I'm rather good, doing something I'm usually quite fond of. But for some reason most people I work with, given two or more options, insist on spending more money and time than necessary to produce a product worse than it otherwise could be. Their lines of argument, of course, are always such that any faulty assumption, minor wrinkle, made-up scenario, or hastily added specification they can grab onto will serve as justification to go with the option they had already picked beforehand, and any counter-argument is simply dismissed as unimportant or "an edge case". I call this method "arguing backwards", from the pre-ordained conclusion to poorly thought out arguments, using not reason or logic but power, authority, and the simple act of annoying your opponent into submission just so they wouldn't be subjected to any further garbled nonsense. It's not as easy for me to switch careers as when I last did it ten years ago but either this recession that's been going on for a cool 25 years ends soon, or I'll start over yet again. I know nobody cares about what I think but feel free to leave a comment telling me what a big wuss I am 😄

If you don't think that one man's trash is another man's treasure, check the "dustbin of history" for all the great ideas and systems that statist panic-mongering and oppression have placed there.

If an equation is derived from well-tested theories, it's scientific. If an equation is arrived at by averaging the results of large amounts of dilligently conducted experiments, it's engineering. If an equation consists of conjured up numbers that may or may not be explained and somehow always seem to favour those who have developed them, it's bureaucracy.

Remember the MSG debate? God I wish that was the worst thing in the food you can buy in shops 😅

In the age of AI, self-important business talk has reached incredible levels of almost complete lack of substance. I thought consultants and middle managers were almost all talk and no expertise ten years ago but boy howdy there are some dumb, soulless m-f-ers running around quoting AI responses verbatim, answering questions no one ever asked.

We didn't have that rule when I was a child but my parents didn't really give a crap what I did in bed so I just tore through books when I wasn't tired yet. 😄 Fantastic rule, will certainly be applied to future children.