I like "the org chart is the asymptote," i.e. it's the best you could possibly do, and your reality will actually be worse. (see Casey Muratori)
I started as a philosophy major and switched to history and economics for this exact reason. My philosophy classes became incredibly disconnected from reality and ended up being endless arguments about frameworks and…
I don't agree. There is a good line in the book "Impro" about good and bad teachers. It says that we think of "good teachers" as providing a lot of some substance called "education" while "bad teachers" provide only a…
I'm a history/philosophy major who ended up as a programmer. Pure speculation but I wonder if another part is that history helps you think hard about groups of people and how to lead them / how they work together. I…
"Above all, no zealotry." --Talleyrand
I like "the org chart is the asymptote," i.e. it's the best you could possibly do, and your reality will actually be worse. (see Casey Muratori)
I started as a philosophy major and switched to history and economics for this exact reason. My philosophy classes became incredibly disconnected from reality and ended up being endless arguments about frameworks and…
I don't agree. There is a good line in the book "Impro" about good and bad teachers. It says that we think of "good teachers" as providing a lot of some substance called "education" while "bad teachers" provide only a…
I'm a history/philosophy major who ended up as a programmer. Pure speculation but I wonder if another part is that history helps you think hard about groups of people and how to lead them / how they work together. I…
"Above all, no zealotry." --Talleyrand