I love professionals taking works of fiction very, very seriously with regards to their specialty, both for incongruent humor value and because this is a great learning device for the underlying truths about the real world.
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Lord of the Rings and the solvable challenges of infantry defensive doctrine against overwhelmingly superior combined arms:https://angrystaffofficer.com/2016/11/04/warfighter-middle-earth/ …
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Challenges in project management and the inadvisability of delegating it to consultants capable of murdering people with their minds and predisposed to doing so in response to accurate Gantt charts:https://medium.com/@HybridAnalyst/death-star-ii-a-project-management-case-study-7e9ce087cc08 …
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Payment systems designed by magical thinking cultists with too much love of the gold standard and too little appreciation for the microeconomics of wand shops: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cryptocurrency-of-stars/ …
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Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, and how important it is that they are separated by sixty miles with minimal road networks and vanishingly little to eat: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondor/ … h/t
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Postmortem for power failure, industrial sabotage, partial escaped asset event, and multiple work-related fatalities at a construction site and refresher on engineering ethics for the board of directors of InGen Corporation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jp6h66Yh2M …
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Occupational safety and industrial workstation productivity improvements possible through adopting the improved factory layout practices at Monster’s Inc:https://twitter.com/katietiedrich/status/1097210125398491136 …
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"I bet you Ackbar went to sleep every night DREAMING about capturing a Tie factory, so he could stop listening to prima donna flyboys whine about their astromechs" It resonates so much it hurts!
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