Living In A Looking Glass World
In the mirror of truth, you can see things as they really are.
I’ve made no secret of my own opinion that the entire Grand Game of Software Engineering is one of enforced prolonged cognitive dissonance, endless laborious rituals and charades of little to no consequence, and most definitely densely populated with the most bizarre players — that most likely couldn’t quite function anywhere else.
Besides all that, however, something even more unbelievable lurks within the Game — an undercurrent of oppositional happenings, a world that is truly right through the looking glass and out on the other supremely surreal side — where nothing is what it seems, and everything is completely in opposition to the world you thought you inhabited.
Take, for instance, your humble¹ project manager.
For a person described commonly as being “in charge”, being the go to authority when decisions to be made, or just being someone you can turn to when advice or guidance is needed, I think we can all safely agree that the complete opposite is the real truism here.
They are the people to whom accountability is anathema, who actively pursue policies ranging from plausible deniability at one end to complete disregard at the other, and all with their attention primarily on advancement up the managerial food chain and…
