Blizzard Manager Departs in Protest of Employee Ranking System

Re:Blizzard Manager Departs in Protest of Employee Ranking S... by koonsolo on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:16AM (#34501387)

> leaders rarely seem to think hard enough about the possible outcomes.

This really annoys me about politics. They seems to reason as: We have problem A, so let's do solution B to solve this. And then the reasoning ends.

What should happen is to evaluate all the consequences of solution B. And sometimes those consequences work in such a way that they make problem A even bigger.

Reasoning about an interconnected system is crucial here. And as developers we are very well aware of systems and the impact changes can have. But it seems a lot of people are not able to reason about systems.

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Re:Blizzard Manager Departs in Protest of Employee Ranking S... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:31AM (#34501920)

Many humans see themselves as independent absolute monarchs of their world. The reality of "we're all part of an interconnected system" is so incredibly offensive on some super-sensitive egotistical and narcissistic level that they will literally become violent to defend it.

If there's one thing we should be teaching in schools, this is it. You can leave school and have no clue that everything is connected to everything else, and that if you're not focused on that reality your actions can have completely unexpected and counterintuitive (to you...) consequences.

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