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Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat (wikipedia.org)
1 point by peter_d_sherman on Nov 25, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."

Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion."

Related:

o Parkinson's Law

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

o The Peter Principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

"People in a hierarchy tend to rise to a level of respective incompetence."

o The Dilbert Principle

"Companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle

Also related:

Idiocracy

2006 dystopian sci-fi comedy film written by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLxc954ipo




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