The Corporate Fog Of Incompetence

Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX
Published in
6 min readJul 21, 2024

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The resistance to corporate change is deliberately propagated, and it forcibly holds real innovation, and motivation at bay.

https://medium.com/codex/the-collective-illusion-of-commuting-b95bfa6bc138

Sometimes I get up in the morning, do my regular walk of penance in the wild, wet, and windy season¹, trudge home suitably soaking wet, log in, and inevitably hold my head in my hands and cry when I see how many hurdles have appeared overnight to prevent me from actually getting anything done.

I’m sure you’ve felt the same way and were also very tempted to just give up, open the nightmare that is LinkedIn, wade past the usual back slapping platitudes, motivational claptrap, and lowbrow drivel about everyone clapping when you did something utterly unremarkable in public, and attempted to find another job.

Then, as you skimmed a few of the myriad “AI” generated recruiter posts, and saw levels of such absolute an abject bollocks² that were even higher than in your own inbox, you immediately thought better of it and decided to push on rather than jump into those particular shark infested waters.

At for least today, anyway.
Although it was straws++, camelsBack != broken⁵. Yet.

Perhaps you’d even had a good day yesterday — nailed that bug at 16:59³, pushed that change while no-one was looking that contained a deliberate, but entirely…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, X, and Overwatch fan.