If someone at work tries to micromanage you, micromanage them back.
Send them too much feedback, ask them a lot of questions, do follow ups when they go quiet or even when you know they are busy don’t let them rest.
🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.
My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.
Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.
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@BelleRideaux I agree. But I think folks that fly frequently w/SW got used to having 2 free bags on domestic flights. I don't think that's the case nowadays.
I see Church's Chicken has had a rebrand of sorts. Been seeing a lot of mukbangs. I remember my older cousin swore that the grease was somehow seeping in her pores when she worked there in high school
There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.
The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.
To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.
A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.
The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.
It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.
Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.
In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.
Yes, actually, we do accommodate them.
We recruit rural physicians for rural communities all the time because people are more likely to trust and stay connected to healthcare systems when clinicians understand their culture, language, geography, and lived experience.
That is why we have rural tracks in medical schools, Native health pathways, Black maternal health initiatives, Spanish-speaking clinics, VA systems, tribal health systems, and community-based recruitment programs.
This is not “woke.” It is how public health works.
The difference is that nobody calls it “identity politics” when medicine bends over backward to accommodate rural White populations because that has long been viewed as normal. The outrage only seems to appear when minority communities ask for the same recognition.
Patients are human beings, not interchangeable widgets in a bureaucratic sorting machine.
@ppppp1245688, your last RT:On RHOBH reunion, Boz said this exact thing. CMO is hard & take the fall when the co misses earnings. I didn't understand it but I guess the sentiment is true