Interesting article. The Null Process seems at least somewhat analogous to the phenomenon described in the essay "The Tyranny of Structureless" [1] (that when people claim there is no hierarchy/structure in a group of people, in truth there is an informal but very powerful hierarchy that's hidden from you and whose rules you are not familiar with). If there are "no processes" in truth there is a process and you don't know its rules because they aren't stated anywhere. Aka the "unspoken expectations" mentioned in TFA.
This is all reminding me of the murmurs from Jeri Ellsworth and friends about the shadow government at Valve.
The lack of transparency means that the subtle people win a rigged game that the more oblivious don't even know is being played. A category in which engineers are substantially over-represented.
We put it out there so that there are more eyes on it, and people are forced to acknowledge their own pain points and learn a bit about themselves and/or teamwork.
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[1] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm