Look at 2020, and try to tell me with a straight face that boring administration such as disease prevention is inconsequential to our material well-being. Administration is boring, but it's everything.
Slightly off topic: Innovation worship also ignores the value of basic maintenance. I'm not against innovation, but its drama is too often crowding out boring administrative tasks. As a maintainer/administrator, this affects me. Coding at the bleeding edge can be exciting, but I've had to pick up the pieces for way too many cowboys.
Unfortunately (meandering back to topic), the glitzy people sometimes deride the admin/maint tasks as boring, etc., and sometimes they like to pump people up against it, like the reality TV star who railed against the hard, undramatic work of the US-Iran nuclear deal as somehow taking something away from America, and gutted it when he got in. So I'm not sure your dual approach would work, but say on, say on. :-)
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Date: 2020-12-01 11:30 pm (UTC)Slightly off topic: Innovation worship also ignores the value of basic maintenance. I'm not against innovation, but its drama is too often crowding out boring administrative tasks. As a maintainer/administrator, this affects me. Coding at the bleeding edge can be exciting, but I've had to pick up the pieces for way too many cowboys.
Unfortunately (meandering back to topic), the glitzy people sometimes deride the admin/maint tasks as boring, etc., and sometimes they like to pump people up against it, like the reality TV star who railed against the hard, undramatic work of the US-Iran nuclear deal as somehow taking something away from America, and gutted it when he got in. So I'm not sure your dual approach would work, but say on, say on. :-)