Interesting Links for 21-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. 2% of people are just bastards

(tags:oxytocin psychology morality sharing business )

2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

(tags:games history Microsoft opensource )

3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!

(tags:women work society satire funny USA )

4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition

(tags:lotr viaNancyLebov video music )

Comments

[nancylebov]

1. Leaves out the effects of bastards in government.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

A complicated theory about how sociopaths promote other sociopaths so that eventually the company is victimizing all the employees who aren't sociopaths.

[channelpenguin]

ooh! Thanks for that link! I'm a self-aware and quite deliberate "Loser".

"The Losers like to feel good about their lives. They are the happiness seekers, rather than will-to-power players, and enter and exit reactively, in response to the meta-Darwinian trends in the economy. But they have no more loyalty to the firm than the Sociopaths. They do have a loyalty to individual people, and a commitment to finding fulfillment through work when they can, and coasting when they cannot."

Precisely. It's why I'm still in software dev, at the codeface, 32 years and counting...

[juan_gandhi]

Good article #3 regarding women. I still remember the times when the majority of programmers were women (because it didn't pay much). Women produce a much more reliable code than men. Especially Indian women, who are just the best kind of programmers you encounter in the Bay Area. But well... #1 gives the answer why.

[channelpenguin]

Only 2%?

But as another commenter notes, the effects of even a small % can easily multiply...

I'm currently feeling like I actually won against my own workplace bastard and he will never even know it. :-). (I've ended up with a better job, a small bit of cash and nearly 4 months off...)

[andrewducker]

A victory worth celebrating!