hey my boyfriend saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe. can we buy you a drink?
a cadre of consultant-class educated morons showing a chart that says “but our economic recovery was better than france” to a person with no passport, who never thinks about france, will never go to france, and is mad that a starter home costs like 450k and has a 6.5% mortgage now
what democrats need now is simple. it’s a guy that follows them around in public with a button that says “nerd shit”. any time they try to do something like convince someone the economy is fine using a graph, the guy hits the “nerd shit” button and a trap door opens, whisking the speaker away into the sewers
i didn’t expect to have to go to the garage to cook these scallion pancakes but instructions are instructions
a new challenger has appeared
there’s a chance $popular_methodology might work for you, if you carefully examine the other places it’s had success and think about whether your org shares any attributes, and how you might need to shift your culture, the hardest thing to do. but that’s never what happens. it’s always “we have Problems, and i think this linkedin post i scanned between meetings might just contain the one true Solution.”
what i hear when someone tells me we’re going to apply a fashionable new methodology without thinking about context nor applying any healthy skepticism
i think the “just doing OKRs will solve all my problems” people have officially become worse than the “just doing scrum will solve all my problems” people