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bullshit.ist · Personal blog · on HN since 2016
bullshit.ist is a Medium-hosted publication with opinionated essays on tech industry work, gig jobs, design, and politics.
What HN saysHN commenters link it in discussions of agile and sprints; one is curious how it appears on a custom domain.
15HN people shared it
2linked it in comments
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- 13Bullshit jobs how our modern bureaucracy created them 836137ca79651 people · first shared 2022
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bkq · 2022-10-05
I get the hate for sprints, and the bastardisation of agile. I think however, the root cause of this is the way in which our society as a whole has been modelled, in a top down manner where control is wrested from the bottom, and perceived control is given to those in between. Each of these articles that make, valid criticisms in my opinion, always makes me think of Bullshit Jobs [1][2]. Most of our lives nowadays are inundated with menial bureaucracy, and each attempt to reform it within bureaucractic systems has simply lead to the red tape being rearranged. I think this stems from our hesitancy to have more horizontal models of ogranisation.
[1] - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-phenomeno…
[2] - https://bullshit.ist/bullshit-jobs-how-our-modern-bureaucracy-created-…
dwolfand · 2016-11-30
I first noticed this on the bottom of this post: https://bullshit.ist/welcome-to-your-2025-drivers-test-cab1677287af#.y…
I wonder how they got this to work - are they owned by medium?