Monday, 5 August 2019

Number-crunching


The modern world of business seems obsessed with statistics and data sheets.
It’s not just my company is it? Every day I seem to be drowning in pointless information and every week I seem to have to write another report or justify another set of numbers. Analysis has become an art form and bureaucracy has become big business.
I missed a trick somewhere, obviously. We all did, about ten years ago. Somebody, somewhere, put all this shit together and realised they could make an absolute fortune by convincing companies that they needed more information than they could possibly know what to do with. There are some very rich people around whose only step to success was writing an algorithm and buying a printer.
Bastards.
Now just for future reference, as far as my blog title challenge for August goes, hyphenated words do NOT count as one-word titles. I won’t change today’s name, but I know I’ve cheated slightly and it won’t happen again.

RC 5-8-19

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