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   Bill 🎙️🚛 💻✔️ (wchouser3@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 00:23:08 JST Bill 🎙️🚛 💻✔️

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   • Jim Salter

   @jimsalter it does feel as though we've gone from say little, do much to say much, do little in rather short order. But I think that's because we've also moved to a system that rewards those with fancy words, and the ability to motivate and/or otherwise stimulate people.

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     Jim Salter (jimsalter@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 00:23:09 JST Jim Salter

     Growing up, my heroes were steely eyed, laconic, hyper-competent people who Got The Needful Done.

     Whether it's a power company lineman out fixing a blown transformer in a storm, or a grizzled master sergeant figuring out how to solve a company-scale problem with a platoon, we're talking about people who say little, and don't think a problem ends with "I don't know" but BEGINS with "I don't know YET."

     It feels like society has moved on from that. But I haven't. Those are STILL my heroes.

     Ethan Black repeated this.