A broken system

 

I bet many of you try to function in an organisation with broken systems. You are then faced with a choice - make a decision to lower an engineering risk at the expense of due protocol, or get on the merry-go-round and hope that crap doesn't break. 

It is lose-lose situation.

But wait! Aren't those 'support' services there to help you? Else why do they exist? Surely the finance, IT, HR and procurement sections are incentivised to assist you, the engineer, create value?

Hahahahahha

Skin in the Game by Taleb is required reading. In fact I think that is the message for today's post.

Start creating people. Start getting ideas out there. I think it was Peter Thiel from PayPal Mafia fame who said that when he looks for ideas, he isn't chasing what people are doing in their day job. He wants to know what they are doing at night, in their garages, creating. That is where the special sauce is made. That is a path to a path. Get on the positive side of a potential black swan event.

With that in mind I'm off to write some more.

Numero cuatro: Skin in the Game

Westy