Re:How boring should your team be
by Philip-J-Fry on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:49AM
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>Why do people think they can "play with new technologies" at work, which is wasting not only company money, but other people's time as well?
This has been a thing for as long as humans have been working. It's because through experimentation you may discover something that increases productivity.
The guy who strapped a combustion engine to a field plow was probably playing with new technologies at work. And it no doubt cost a lot of money. But now the world is better off because of it.
Yeah, engines are more complex than horses. But productivity skyrocketed. These trade-offs are made every single day, every single year for as long as we've existed.
This has been a thing for as long as humans have been working. It's because through experimentation you may discover something that increases productivity.
The guy who strapped a combustion engine to a field plow was probably playing with new technologies at work. And it no doubt cost a lot of money. But now the world is better off because of it.
Yeah, engines are more complex than horses. But productivity skyrocketed. These trade-offs are made every single day, every single year for as long as we've existed.