I am a number in a system built by humans with authority operated by humans with emotions and faults
I am a number. I am a number in a system. I am a number in a system built by humans with authority. Last year I came across the concept of Interpretive Labor after receiving this link about distillation and research debt from another operations engineer who I met briefly at a conference. Of course the link hole ran deep and took me to this research article that talks about bureaucratic incompetence from the University of London in 2006. This is an excerpt from the abstract: "...the responsibility to do the interpretive labor required to allow the powerful to operate oblivious to much of what is going on around them, falls on the powerless, who thus tend to empathize with the powerful far more than the powerful do with them" I think this might be a bit confusing, so let me describe what I took away from the aforementioned link hole. I'm often considered a subject matter "expert" on topics at work. I also hold some level of authority. I feel frustrat...