Hnrobert42

Permission fatigue is real.

I advise a B2B startup that went from 4 developers to just the founder, who is technical but not a developer. It is now profitable and delivering just as many features with arguably better security. N=1

Our counsel is profoundly incompetent.

This is the first I have heard of an experience like this. To what to you attribute your success?

In my case it is the latter.

In one example, someone wanted all internal training, presentations, engineering documentation, internal policies, etc related to the use of AI to accomplish a specific goal.

I was temporarily assigned to be a kind of product manager for the project, so I have the best access to all the multiple departments with 100s of staff involved. That said, I have no authority over them. I don't know every related policy, who developed what training, what engineering documents exist in some random share drive.

It meant calling meetings with the project leads to explain the request. Then hassling them to hassle their staff to check all their drives. Reading through all that material to ensure engineering didn't screen cap PII while making a training slide or put security-sensitive details in an engineering document. There was no guidance on what is not releasable.

And we get maybe one or two of these requests a year for different projects. So it wouldn't be a judicious use of taxpayer resources to build a reliable system for answering these requests.

That surprises me. When I worked in the Uk in a regulated industry, I observed it is very risk averse and process focused. I'm surprised the government can consistently turn around a response in 30 days.

Having been on the other side, the delay may not be a deliberate strategy.

Your question likely landed in someone's inbox. The work falls outside normal scope of the person's job. There's likely zero guidance on how to answer and an implication that the person is personally liable if they accidentally reveal something that legitimately should not be revealed, like PII. And the question is competing with many other priorities in their inbox making it easier to snooze it for another day.

This is not an excuse just an explanation. I was not aware of some of this until I got here. I try hard to answer thoroughly and with as much detail as possible. Sometimes it just takes a while.

Agreed! That was sort of my point.

Not to mention quality of service. Sure, electricity is electricity. Water is water.

But outages, outage response times, infrastructure, investments, etc. are the other side if the equation.

I have no idea. Maybe investor-owned utilities also provide worse service. However, without accounting for that, the article's claims don't mean much.

I thought maybe that was it, but he also talked about the woman with veiny arms.

Okay, but I am unsure what to do with the constant assessment of women's bodies.

Is that true with the 501(k) approval?

That's been my experience, too. I don't remember the store worker's details, though. I'm curious how the gender of the STEM dropouts affected the process.

In the US, tabled means something is not going forward. Am I correct that it means the opposite there?

Yeah. The myth of meaningful work does more harm than good.

Plenty of people find meaning in work. They enjoy it and would do it even if they won the lottery. If that's you, then that's great.

But that will never be the cade for me. I serve organizations with missions I am proud to support. I work with reasonably smart, dedicated people. I am paid a decent amount. The work is sometimes challenging and fun. I am a consultant, so I can set my own hours.

But on any given day, I would rather do anything other than work. Go for a walk. Watch TV. Read a book. See friends.

And that's okay.