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I dropped a mention of his interview on Rogan in this entry. After being impressed with him on that interview, I delayed listening to the interview with Bari Weiss on her p0dcast. Here is the paywalled ep<\/a> on TheFP’s site, but you can find the interview on Honestly<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t c0mpletely agree with him on some things, but this sort of thing that makes me really regret my professional career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is only one way of doing things, and, regardless of what money it might save, it’s dictated how you’re supposed to operate. Thou shalt not deviate. If you do, your system’s going to be shut off. Information security is completely procedural on things that don’t work well at all<\/strong><\/em>, and you’re supposed to devote a significant amount of your time to adhering to procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put your solution through the following procedures, generate the following artifacts, and submit again for cybersecurity authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does the solution work? Well, it passed muster through an extensive waterfall engineering effort. It passed its cybersecurity scans. It cost a ton of money to create. It must be good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion of the time and materials contracts almost necessarily requires expensive solutions put together by people with expensive “educations.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting back to Palmer, though, it certainly evokes memories of my time getting into IT\/government contracting. On the Defense side of things, there seemed, to me, to be a resistance to doing anything at all that was cheap and simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worry about being Captain Queeg with the strawberries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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