Monday’s Greeting & Miniature Emotive Micro-rant

I always find it painful for those of us that understand the semantic, etymologic, systemic, historical, and related first principles of things that have happened in our life time. For example the origination of “DevOps” or “Agile” and know the original coining, intent, and purpose of these terms and principles.

Also the simply things like “they’re”, “their”, and “there”, “where”, “were”, and “we’re”, or the comma usage in this very statement. Not just one or two misuses of these things, but the almost gas lighting nature of entire organizations (looking at whole parts of Microsoft) trying to redefine these things into other entirely new concepts, entire parts of society just ignoring or obliviously not learning these language elements, or a confluence of all these things coming together.

But even all that gas lighting and negligent use of ideas and words, the icing that makes the shit sandwich is, when the failures of society or organizations and people to know and use these concepts and terms and words correctly, then tells you – someone who was involved or knows the concepts and word usage well – that we’re somehow elitist or out of touch or don’t know what we’re talking about.

Utterly insane and levels of hubris that I just give no care to. It is almost as bad, and annoying, and frustrating I imagine as someone writing a code library, component, application, or inventing something and then having someone else explain it back to them wrong and tell them they’re wrong. Just wild madness among some to do this.

It’s painful, but also sometimes in that later case, hilarious to watch the person correct the confidently wrong, then mic drop with, “How do I know? Cuz I created the thing!” 🤣

The lesson, I suppose, that I’m inferring in this miniature emotive micro-rant, is don’t walk through life with the hubris and confidence that the wrong have. Walk through life with humility and learn to listen, always listen, even if you are the holder of knowledge, no matter the case, and be ready to learn and also teach.

With all that said, and my miniature emotive micro-rant complete – y’all have a great day and may this Monday not be like the trope Monday’s often have! Cheers!