My post on cognitive bias, more specifically, the Dunning-Krueger effect certainly created a stir where I work. For the record, I was never brought into the office to explain my words, nor was I requested to take the post down. Why should I? It was factually correct and balanced.

Since I never mentioned the institution, it is a fair assumption that they are cyber-trolling me. Naturally, I know all this and play their silly little game. I push right to the limit, but don’t give them an actual reason to sanction me. What it did do was force the manager to make a statement. Prior to that, it was a known quantity based on a series of unofficial leaks. It is either confidential or it is announced, it cannot be both. This is a humiliating action required for a humiliating situation that they caused. 

Naturally, the crony club had been briefed, even those not directly connected had been consulted. What a joke, the very people that walked us into this mess had been informed, they knew. They are not the people to lead us out of this mess, they don’t have developed a coherent plan, we are just seeing more of the same. What we are seeing is more failed ideas and poor execution, just another failure coming. 

The people required to provide the leadership to navigate the team through this debacle had intentionally been kept uninformed. They believed they knew better than the combined knowledge of those involved – actual practice would tend to indicate otherwise. So, now we watch them fumble around and fuck up. This is an impressive display of incompetence at multiple levels of the organisation, the incompetence is embedded throughout our division and we are the ones put under pressure. We pay for their incompetence – fantastic.