Posted on 11/14/2024 12:58:45 PM PST by Starman417
DC is about to experience something entirely new, something absolutely unprecedented in its experience.
They think the barbarians are coming.
And perhaps they are.
But not the kinds of barbarians they suspect.
Not this time.
The simple fact is that there exists a very small group of incredibly high-function, insanely productive people. It’s the dirty secret of the world. This tiny tribe conceives, invents, and builds basically everything novel. All of it. They are not normal people. They are the 0.1%.
Unless you have worked with them, around them, been a part of what they do, you simply lack a reference for what they are like. It’s essentially inconceivable how much such people can get done when they set their minds to it, how many rules they will disprove, break, or ignore, and how many paradigms they will upend.
DC has never seen a mob of high-function autist builders and fin warriors coalesce before.
They have no fricking idea what's coming.
They cannot possibly know.
But I do.
"Ground control to Major Tomcat"—I know A LOT of these people. This is what most of my friends are like. They learn for a living. They pull systems apart, see them as functional wholes, and work 16-hour days reading arcane 1,000-page descriptions until they understand. Then they pull the underwear of whoever thought they understood this material up over their heads in an atomic wedgie and take over a space. It’s just what you do if you’re a person like that. It’s compulsion. It’s like breathing.
These are 3, 4, and 5 standard deviation people who have focus and talent in quantities they do not even have maps of in Washington. I keep hearing about people I know a little getting tapped for transition teams, and I’m like, “Ooooooh, that guy can read 100 CDS prospectuses in a weekend and remember it all,” or “Yeah, that guy thinks in algorithms and sleeps once a month. He could code when he was six.”
“Only an insider can tackle the swamp” is dead wrong.
It takes someone radically different to make a radical difference.
And I am giddy realizing that they are coming.
It does not matter that they do not know the terrain yet.
They will. They have three months to learn. That’s more than enough.
Watch.
Moving into novel systems or spaces and becoming better at it than the people currently there is what these people do. It’s ALL they do. It’s who and what they are.
It does not matter if it’s the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the DMV, or NASA. Same game, same result. Every time.
“To infinity and beyond!”
The insiders are so screwed.
DC has no one like this. They have never even met people like this because people like this avoid government like it was a bag of plague rats.
Because it is.
But now they are interested and looking to play exterminator because the state strayed too far into our world, and so now we are coming for theirs.
And wait until you see what the world’s best builders can tear down.
It’s going to be glorious.
These are the same people who, in 10 weeks using just sparse public data and Twitter, pulled the pants down on the whole edifice of public health and revealed them as fakes, phonies, and charlatans. Then they re-wrote the discipline. It will never be the same. Most of us had never even looked at epidemiology before. In a few months, the “amateurs” eclipsed the experts and left them for dead.
We did this as outsiders and without any maps and with the very opposite of help.
Imagine what this gang can do with the keys to the kingdom.
It’s going to be nothing but baffled astonishment from the Beltway boffins.
“How in hell have they read and understood everything?! They are not experts here!” will decry the people who need to pass bills to find out what’s in them.
“How the hell are they producing so much output, so much impact? How did they know just where to push?”
They have never seen what 10 of these guys and three pots of coffee can achieve.
I have.
Mountains get relocated.
The really truly high-function have not come to meet the regulatasaurus before. They were busy and had better things to do.
Not anymore. “Dismantle Leviathan” is now a step in everyone’s business plan. Better, it’s public service as it was supposed to be:
Not a vocation. Not a career. A task. A dirty task that needed doing, so you go and do it, and then you go home once it’s done.
You fricking clowns just cornered Elon and made this election and administration an existential issue for him and his empire. And an awful lot of us feel the same way. You cornered all of us. Go along to get along ended because you guys crossed the line.
Welcome to reflexivity.
The pushback is going to be something for the ages.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
1st major overhaul of the US Government in over 100 years. Past time for it
Ducttape? HEY, THAT’S ME!!!! Can I get paid for the use of my chat name here on FR?? LOL
There is a well-documented principle that says the square root of the number of people in any organization does 50% of the work. 100 people, 10 do half. 10000 people, 100 workers.
The bigger the organization, the less people at the top of the productivity.
I worked with one of those people. He worked on the self driving ago for tsla. Different kind of human.
Trump’s team looks like a revolution. I wish them success!
bkmk
I worked at IBM Research for 10 years, husband for 20. I was surrounded by those people.
Computer History - John Cocke: A Retrospective by Friends - 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYwd30iWVvw
Is there anything we can do to prevent tens of thousands of ex-government employees with no discernible skills from invading our cities as they escape their homeland??? They won’t be able to compete with the Central American immigrants already here, so they’ll just be a drag on our city services!
Haha, yeah I want in on that too ;-)
Love it!
It’s going to be beautiful. The standard hackneyed pushback from the existing structure is starting to be regurgitated. The existing time servers will be used up.
Yes. From what I have seen in my close association with parts of the federal government is that plenty of people stand up and say “I can help!” and the standard answer is — “Sit down. No one asked for help. We don’t want your help. We’re not here to fix anything. Shut up.”
It’s just a whole different ballgame if you have people at the top announcing, “We’re gonna fix stuff”.
Because then plenty of people stand up and say “I can help!” and those people will move heaven and earth.
A cold November rain today, how fitting.
Price’s Law...
Gentlemen:
See that bookshelf over there. Those are the operating rules for us. It took me 30 years to be confident I would not run afoul of the rules in a noticeable fashion.
Maybe they can go to work building the wall.
Haha, I was just catching up and saw this thread. I’m glad I scrolled enough to see your post, cuz I was gonna ping you!
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