I have seen Office Space a billion times, but I only just noticed that on the whiteboard in the conference room where the Bobs are interviewing everyone, it says “Planning to plan” over a huge and ridiculously complex diagram.

My current pet theory is that if we were to inventory and diagram all of the “Waiting for X”-type statuses in all the Jira projects across the organization, we would have a pretty good map of bottlenecks that need to be resolved.

John Ganz has a post up that digs into the seemingly contradictory connections between libertarianism and fascism:

For my part, I’ve always found something unsatisfying about all the explanatory frameworks. I don’t think history, politics, sociology, or psychology provide a satisfactory account. I don’t think this is all an accident. I think there’s something else at the core that determines the affinity between libertarianism and fascism. This was what I was trying to grasp in 2017 when I wrote about Rothbard in the wake of Charlottesville and said that they were both united by the notion of naked, brutal self-interest: radical libertarians believed this on an individual level, fascists, on the collective level, and it was not hard to switch between the two. Many commentators—both pro- and anti-capitalist—have noticed the analogy between the invisible hand of the market and a Social Darwinian “state of nature.”

After listening to Nilay Patel’s interview with Andy Hunter from Bookshop.org, I went and checked out their new ebook offering. It’s pretty good, and while I am not a huge fan of ebooks personally—I still prefer reading real books—I think it’s great that there is an alternative to Amazon for purchasing them.

Yes, it is annoying that most the ebooks they sell are locked with DRM, but the publishers are to blame for that one; you should go shout at them about it, not Bookshop.

sigh

And now I have another blog.