Work

Somewhere in your company, a decision was made a few weeks ago that will shape a product for the next two years. Four people were involved. It happened in a Slack thread, underneath a reply to an automated build alert, in a channel created for a launch that has already shipped. All four people would probably tell you the decision is documented. And technically, they would be right. The problem is that nobody else knows the decision happened. The person who will have to live with it may not even be in the channel. Six months from now, the same question will come up again. Someone will search Slack for forty minutes, give up, and the team will make the decision again. Probably a little differently. ...

“Why so serious?” The line is memorable because it cuts through pretense. The Joker was not asking for chaos. He was exposing hypocrisy. People pretending this is all very important, very controlled, very rational. When in reality, it is not. Lately, scrolling LinkedIn feels like watching that scene on repeat. Stories proudly shared. Lessons supposedly learned. And beneath them, a disturbing seriousness about work and people that has lost all proportion. ...