Good read on the weird book that Palantir includes in the incoming employee book bag. @mariogabriele reviews 'Impro' after wondering "Why would a vendor to the military ask its new recruits to study the ponderings of a former associate director of London’s Royal Court Theatre?" At the core... See more

The Gervais Principle is this:

Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves.

The Gervais principle differs from the Peter Principle, which it superficially resembles. The... See more

When “HR” to you mainly means a bunch of cloud apps rather than Toby from The Office, when even your boss is potentially an app streaming tasks and bounties at you rather than a person, when your world of work does not exist in the reality distortion field of a Steve Jobs, but in the inanimate reality distortion field of a stack of cobbled together... See more