I’ve been thinking about what makes something zombie-like, and have concluded it is lack of an innate identity maintenance/repair instinct. If your arm falls off and you don’t try to reattach it, you’re a zombie. Mutatis mutandis any complex system.
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The Zombie Neutron Star.
The Zombie Black Hole.
The Zombie Arctic.
The Zombie Pine tree.
The Zombie Balding Middle-Aged Human.
The Zombie Alzheimer's Sufferer.
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i don’t love where this is going. But I’m pretty sure congress has been shedding
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my mental model of 🧟♂️ = “eat more brainzzz” - simplicity of directive, there’s only space for that one line of code, so self-repair can’t fit.
Then I wonder if that’s true for say, a shitty bureaucracy. Maybe so many lines that there’s deadlock, effectively 1 line too? 🤔
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And if your head falls off and you don’t reattach it, you’re a Republican.
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If your bf leaves you and you only notice half a week later, you were in a zombie relationship.
Works for me.
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1/ Some BIG companies I have been exposed to (internally) seem like this.
People did things for years without knowing why.
Even when most or all the people doing it felt it was harmful or useless.
Even when many of them were vocal about the harm & uselessness.
Also…
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