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I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Beat me to it! Their other one on corp speak is also amazing
Then this will make you feel right at work:
The videos on that channel are so good that they're painful to watch, when you realize how closely it matches the life you're living.This one is my favorite (or "least favorite" depending on how hard it hits on any given day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
I feel like the people doing that channel could write a very effective modern Office Space.
⬐ eastonThe most recent one, "Leadership Sync", pops into my head in pretty much every meeting I've had in the last two weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg⬐ metadat⬐ willciprianoI instead use words like "meet", "create", or other concrete and discrete <verb-action> and try to otherwise avoid the managerial douche buzzwords IRL.I submit it's unnecessary and pointlessly toolish to use such phrasing and lingo. People who speak that way deserve judgment; it's lazy and the buzzwords are variations on low entropy / meaningless vagaries.
My favorite: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoH15ylAeo⬐ omginternetsThe last minute of him stammering on the zoom call makes me want to hide under the bed.⬐ coffee_beqnI watched that multiple times after delivering a big feature I had to crunch on late last year. Of course my reward was a”meets expectations “ modest raise.⬐ colpabarit is insane to me that this channel is being discussed today because literally 2 days ago it was recommended to me on youtube.⬐ coffee_beqn⬐ phatfishIt is very much inside jokes for professionals in the tech industry. Very underrated gemReminds me a bit of "The Website Is Down": https://www.youtube.com/c/jrwyt-thewebsiteisdown/videos⬐ memorableAlternative front-end version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ⬐ DiggyJohnsonOh my god⬐ the_afThis video is hilarious (like many on that channel). What cracks me up is the little jokes you can miss unless you pause some frames, like"...but not before I read my blogs" --> "What Ancient Mayans Can Teach You About Living Your Best Life"
"and journal about creativity" --> "sleep retrospective, epiphanies: 0"
⬐ hodgesrmIt's like Portlandia for software developers.⬐ ravi-deliaThe production value is just immaculate. Every frame is so clearly meticulously constructed to portray the emptiest imaginable life. A man going nowhere at maximum speed, really more of an absence than a man. It's so very close to being too painful to be funny, and I've never even believed in the grind. Just pity for a wretched soul.⬐ potas> A man going nowhere at maximum speed, really more of an absence than a man.Dude, that's a beautiful summary not only of the video but of the entire productivity cult.
⬐ idriosProbably the most production value they put into a video was their Virtual Coachella one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreOrUWhich has way fewer views than it deserves, possibly for algorithm reasons because it was given a cease & desist by actual Coachella https://mobile.twitter.com/EFF/status/1373006482397032449
⬐ the_afVirtual Coachella is a hilarious take on a dystopian hellscape (not far from our present time). I love it. Like a Black Mirror episode, only condensed so that every single second is brilliant and packed with jokes.⬐ m_muellerThey have so many other good ones - “Microservices”, “Senior Engineer”, “Ballmercon”, “Computertime with Gooch” are still my favourites.⬐ ravi-deliaI had the pleasure of working with an old school engineer (worked at Microsoft, a few little start-ups, and I believe IBM, starting in the mid-eighties). After I showed him Senior Engineer, he'd drop quotes constantly. "I've slain...my enemies"Computertime with Gooch is probably the weirdest and funniest, but I Have Delivered Value has me in stitches every time. Every time my any of my friends runs into an inconvenience, I ask if it's a blocker, and if it will prevent the KPIs of their life from growing quarter over quarter. Though actually, considering our narrator's ennui is preventing Galactus from knowing the end of the universe and thus from getting user info, maybe he should be a little more focused on deliverables
They create value [1].
⬐ disqardYour link sent me down a rabbit-hole -- their "microservices" video is very good, and excellent commentary on current trends.
And what will you truly feel when you finally deliver value?
Wingman is cool and all, but OmegaStar is really holding things up - still waiting on ISO timestamp support:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
Shout out to the Galactus team!
⬐ stingraycharlesThis comment and the relevancy of the videos make no sense to me. Am I the only one?⬐ dunefoxIt's because a microservice in the video is also called Wingman.
⬐ blinger88Some of the other good krazam vids:Microservices https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
The Hustle https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U
⬐ geoduck14⬐ totonyI would attend BALMERCONThis is one of the best YT channels I'm subscribed to. Highly recommended⬐ tuatoruBusiness Buzzword Bingo turned up to 11!⬐ orf> Sure, I documented all the requirements that my leaders needed to give sign-off on. But did I fail to document something more fundamental? The requirement to feel?Gets me every time
⬐ sgiratchThis hurts to watch :-D