tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4352451336534852300..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: This Is Not NewAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29745012102698853612018-12-04T18:33:29.983-05:002018-12-04T18:33:29.983-05:00"We were saved from being taken in by our con..."We were saved from being taken in by our constant vigilance"<br /><br />Reminds me of the Parable of the Poodle:<br /><br />****<br /><br />Once, there was a black poodle who was very intelligent--and knew it. (I am confident that this was a standard poodle, although this fact is not specified in the story.)<br /><br />One evening, the poodle was returning from the public library, where he had been reading fables by Aesop. He was not happy with the way Aesop presented dogs, and and was particularly irritated by the story in which a dog drops a real bone in order to get its larger-looking reflection in the water. "No dog is that stupid," the poodle said to himself, and he resolved that he, for one, would certainly never do such a silly thing.<br /><br />On the way home--carrying a small bone in his mouth for dinner--he crossed a bridge and noticed a large and delicious-looking bone in the water beneath. "Well, I'm certainly not as stupid as Aesop imagined," he thought as he hurried on, congratulating himself on his astuteness. The bone in the water--an excellent one, dropped that very afternoon by the grocer's deliveryman--remained where it was.<br /><br />***<br /><br />(from the late Gerald Weinberg, who collected many other examples of fallacious thinking)David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-73333413644027784602018-12-04T09:24:00.845-05:002018-12-04T09:24:00.845-05:00This is the premise of Dilbert - management by buz...This is the premise of Dilbert - management by buzzword, a phenomenon well known to anybody who has worked in a technology field for more than a couple decades. I do detect more of a willingness to point and laugh now but the younger and more impressionable (i.e. the people manning Google, and Twitter, and FaceBook) don't understand that the cycle has played out many times in the past, and will again.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com