Here's a truth for you -- especially if you haven't hit your 40s yet, maybe not even your 30s.
The truth is this:
*Nobody* knows what the fuck they're doing.
If someone seems like they have their shit together, either they are presenting you with a completely false front, or they are in a season of The Total Occasional Fluke of Everything Apparently Going Right and Coming Together.
But what are we really doing? Nobody knows. WE'RE ALL JUST DOING WHAT WE CAN WITH THE TOOLS WE HAVE AT THE TIME.
Starting a new book tonight, “How to Lead when you’re not in charge”, by Clay Scroggins. I have a project coming up at work and while I have no real position of authority I have a lot at stake and great opportunities if this project goes well.
Paramount kept their staff on hand to handle stressful conditions, surely kept lots of folks on-call to ensure the Superbowl could be streamed on their service, had record viewership numbers and then immediately laid off 800 of the people who helped give them that success the next day so that the executive leadership could pocket all the profits without sharing it with the labor force who built it.
Seriously. Eat the rich.
https://deadline.com/2024/02/paramount-global-layoffs-begin-ceo-bob-bakish-1235824028/
STOP PUTTING STUFF INSIDE OF OTHER STUFF
* YEARS OF OBJECT HIERARCHIES and XML and JSON yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for putting a list of things inside a thing that is ALREADY IN A LIST OF THINGS
* "I like remembering how to index into this GIANT NESTED OBJECT", "What reading values out of a file really needs is A COMPLEX PARSER DEPENDENCY and EXTRA TYPE JUGGLING AT SYSTEM BOUNDARIES" - statements dreamed up by the least helpful nerd on Stack Overflow
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS