Sometimes I see people making confident claims about the decision-making process inside companies I’ve never worked at, and I have no way to know better so I assume they are right.
Then I see them making confident and totally wrong assertions about how Apple works and make decisions. And I wonder if I should put any stock in the rest of it.
@donmelton It is indeed, unfortunately the Apple omertà prevents me from pointing out just how full of shit some people are.
@othermaciej Thankfully I no longer have that limitation. 🤣 Seriously, feel free to DM me about egregious bullshit and I'll call it out. Publicly. 👌
@othermaciej I'm pretty confident that it's a shit show everywhere and I'm amazed that most companies can stay in business.
@paulhmason Lots of variation in exactly how and why and to what extent companies are a shit show though!
@othermaciej in my experience this is unfortunately often true for many topics in journalism.
@othermaciej Hard to tell if you're coming out against feature engineering, transfer learning or just all of social media. :)
@counternotions Do I only get to pick one?
@othermaciej Which goes to prove my point: Apple people are so indecisive!
@counternotions Hmm, I'm not sure if I agree with that or not.
@othermaciej I have similar issue about my own areas of expertise - I think Gell-Mann amnesia is the name for the general phenomenon. However, I have found recognition of it can engender a deep cynicism, so be careful!
@othermaciej To be fair, Apple is more secretive than most organizations about their decision making process. Media likely gets Apple reporting wrong a bit more than other companies.
@Gregnee @othermaciej nature abhors a vacuum. So do cats and journalists.
@othermaciej It's always a great litmus test for bullshit opinions as far as I'm concerned. 🤣