Work Somewhere Dysfunctional

Marianne Bellotti
12 min readJan 17, 2022

The rewards are great if you can survive…

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The other day I was talking to an engineer about developing and refining good process. My most effective and valuable tricks for getting stuff done were developed in dysfunctional places (i.e. the government.) If your technique needs ideal conditions in order to work, then it doesn’t work at all. At some point you need to stress test it, and you might as well start off…

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Marianne Bellotti

Author of Kill It with Fire Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)