One day my manager pulled me aside in the open office. “I got a new manager as you heard who now works in this office, and we’ve been talking restructuring the team,” he said, with a grave tone, “And he says you don’t type at your computer enough.”

— Stephanie Hurlburt (@sehurlburt) April 22, 2019

This happens a lot in IT. Had a manager tell someone who worked for me, “I don’t see you working on the servers enough.” The employee tried to explain that we remoted into them and had no need to be at the physical console almost ever, but the manager didn’t understand this at all.

I’ve also gotten criticized for staring at my screen “doing nothing.” I had to explain that I do a lot of design, and if I think about something for two hours I need to actually think and not type, not read (though reading breaks help the unconscious work), not have meetings, and not chat with co-workers (all crap MBAs absolutely love to do). I got a little snippy and said that I might stare at the screen for two hours, but when I was done what emerged on said screen was correct and didn’t need all the re-work of the social butterflies.

Mathematicians Are Overselling the Idea That “Math Is Everywhere.”

Yep. Teaching all students anything beyond very basic algebra is a vast and futile waste of time, like teaching everyone to use an enormous industrial combine because “all our food comes from farms.”

This will only be more the case over time as math becomes the domain of expert systems and AI.

Very good article, that, and one you don’t often see since the math scam is so pervasive and influential.

Say it with me again. America health care, including hospitals, operate like a criminal enterprise. https://t.co/FeQUuSq540

— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) April 22, 2019

They don’t operate like a criminal enterprise — they are a criminal enterprise. Just because they provide some benefit doesn’t mean they aren’t also mobsters and racketeers. Loan sharks and the mafia provide sometimes very-valuable services to the communities in which they are embedded, for instance, but no one would term them humanitarians.

The medical community meets many of the de jure requirements of the RICO act: fraud, embezzlement, racketeering and extortion among them.

I am not exaggerating for effect. I do believe that the American (in particular) medical community is a criminal enterprise. Only effective cultural influence (propaganda) muddies that obvious conclusion.