Looking forward to it and to seeing "people" - should be great 🙂

imo it’s like “ecological”

the word still has a scientific meaning, but it has been so heavily rebranded that it’s impossible to use it in a lay discussion

also another example

swastika is a symbol of Buddhism … except if you’re somewhere western.

it doesn’t matter what agile is or isn’t (imo), but rather that it’s not possible to solve the problem people are attempting to solve, in the manner they are attempting to solve it.

Both Lean Startup and Agile have an interesting historical lineage. Taylorism in the 1890's has a lot to answer for (and was proven complete fakery)

well if the same set of management rituals keep spontaneously arising

then presumably that is because they are adding some kind of value

reminds me of that ''today I did nothing' tweet

just because you didn't commit any code, doesn't mean you didn't do anything; it just means that you don't value or measure properly all the other stuff that you need to do

Yeah they all get derived something, just watered down a little more. It still rings like the gold rush though, those making the money are selling the training, consultancy and everything else but rarely doing it themselves. 🙂

And I will stone cold refuse to do a Lego Workshop with anyone.

oooh I've not heard of those

yeah that was interesting

I guess they're not as much fun as they sound

but isn't it similiar with agile management

I would guess if you’re distracted with blocks, you don’t have as much mental resources for self-policing

so you end up inadvertently saying stuff you’d rather not say, if only you weren’t distracted

the problem with any company-sponsored therapy is that employee’s and company’s interests are not 100% aligned, so this kind of therapy is not 100% benevolent.

and the therapist's interests are not aligned with either

Indeed. But everyone takes part as you stick out like a sore thumb for saying, “this is nuts”. And on that note dear friends I’m going to sit by the river and read a book.

I think no human has a uniffied and harmoniously directed mind

there are always conflict inside each engineer

which makes the notion of 100% benevolent very difficult

you always squash some strands of though/emotion in order to favour others

yeah, sure

that’s part of the problem: you’re trying to filter out people who are not True Believers (that is who have strongly visible thoughts/emotions not in favour of the company)

in and of itself this is not evil, it’s something every strongly internally-altruistic group deals with (religion, village, military, anything with initiatory/hazing rituals)

but in such groups it’s a mutual relationship: you are loyal to the group, the group takes care of you when you’re down. Companies, however, will not.

@maleghast - you can configure cider-ns-refresh globally in emacs.d, or per-project via .dir-locals.el (e.g. https://github.com/robert-stuttaford/bridge/blob/master/.dir-locals.el).

I have some vague recollection of this. Feel like it may have been someone like @U0FR9C8RZ or @U0524B4UW?

I've no idea about delivery, but Paul A. Young makes the best chocolates that I know about.

http://www.paulayoung.co.uk/

Wow, he can't be doing too badly for himself with 3 shops in London

i don't think it was me - i've never ordered internet chocolates

A double false positive. My bad 🙂

chococo might deliver I think

https://www.chococo.co.uk/