'Mind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, articulated by the Italian software developer Alberto Brandolini in 2013: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Or, as Jonathan Swift put it in 1710, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”'
It summarizes my workplace experiences (yeah, confirmation bias). I've called bullshit on engineers a few times, but managers seem not to care. I gave up doing it, and instead whenever a engineer makes bullshit claims about a particular process/software/language I ask him "can you show us a working example?" Give them enough rope...
'Mind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, articulated by the Italian software developer Alberto Brandolini in 2013: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Or, as Jonathan Swift put it in 1710, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”'
It summarizes my workplace experiences (yeah, confirmation bias). I've called bullshit on engineers a few times, but managers seem not to care. I gave up doing it, and instead whenever a engineer makes bullshit claims about a particular process/software/language I ask him "can you show us a working example?" Give them enough rope...