A celebration of bureaucrats and bureaucracy. Whether in government, business, or non-profits, meetings, reports, meetings, conferences, reports, and meetings constitute daily life in a large organization.
Every educated person should understand the First Fundamental Theorem of Bureaucracy, also known as Conway’s Law. An illustration of the First Fundamental Theorem: A contract research organization had eight people who were to produce a COBOL and an ALGOL compiler. After some initial estimates of difficulty and time, five people were assigned to the COBOL … Continue reading COB-53: Conway's Law
Like bureaucrats, sloths are often mocked and defamed. Such actions merely display ignorance. In fact, sloths are highly capable animals. Sloths have a reputation for sleeping a lot. Confined in zoos, sloths sleep on average 16 hours a day. You would too if you lived and worked in a zoo. Important new research documents that … Continue reading COB-52: sloths unjustly maligned
Death happens. No one wants to die. Bureaucrats do not welcome death. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier honors all soldiers. There is no Tomb of the Unknown Bureaucrat. Many bureaucrats are unknown. Those moving, ponderous words crawled through my head as I visited a colleague’s grave in the courtyard corner of the old office … Continue reading COB-51: a bureaucrat's grave
La Meurte de un burócrata, which was made in 1966 by the Cuban Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and which is transliterated into English as The Death of a Bureaucrat, is an important film for viewers to view so that by that means the viewer will come to appreciate the importance of following appropriate procedures when engaged … Continue reading COB-50: impacting cinematography
Among superheroes, Judge Bao is a much stronger than Superman. Judge Bao has represented justice in China for about a thousand years. Superman was invented about seventy-five years ago. Judge Bao is righteous, fearless, and incorruptible. Superman has a well-known vulnerability to Kryptonite and a weakness for Lois Lane. Judge Bao does his official job. … Continue reading COB-49: bureaucratic superheroes