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An Exercise In Corporate Catharsis
A reminder that it’s important to get things out into the open, to level up, and to always play your best moves.
Today, some personal reflections, catharsis, and insights into the corporate world of software engineering. A thought piece, if you will, for a change.
I think I must be, at heart, quite an optimistic person. This is primarily because on reviewing some of the 500 or so articles I’ve written here that I’m consistently disappointed with a lot of things, but somehow still manage to have the will to go on.
I’ve said my writing is all about the catharsis, so perhaps, after all this time, it actually could be true — and actually be provably true instead of just anecdotally¹ so.
Sometimes it’s society and its people, sometimes technology and the incessant monetisation that comes as an inevitable result of end stage capitalism, and sometimes politicians — those that have successfully removed themselves from ordinary life to deal with other, more “important” issues, such as how to stay on the gravy train by continually getting reelected, how to promise the most and do the least, and generally how to not to get caught with their hands in the till.
But, most often, I’ve most definitely been consistently disappointed at how the Grand Game of Software Engineering has come to enslave…
