By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026Why are you concerning yourself with the writer's pencil-sharpening technique? There's precedent for this: indeed, it's the very origin of management consulting. 1822
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026The first management consultants were Taylorists; con artists who charged bosses vast sums of money to stand over workers with stopwatches, timing each step of their jobs to the instant in order to produce a mandatory choreography of "the best way" to do the job: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...en.wikipedia.orgScientific management - Wikipedia 29915
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026None of these "scientists" knew anything about how to do the job, and critically, they *never asked the workers* why they used an "inefficient" technique to accomplish a task. 3886
Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For me, this is still the best explainer of both Taylorism and it's consequences. youtu.be/QcGtOsEUPgo?...youtu.beJabberwocky - Lesson in Manufacturing EfficiencyYouTube video by Kendragon Ducati 000
