Footnotes are excluded from his analysis and are important.
1 Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally
estimated from a number of different sources and is summarised on pages 5 to 17 in this report.
So the report warns to not do exactly what he is doing.
The ratio of people with inane checklists who spend their entire day in meetings to people doing actual work exceeds 1:10.
Employees who essentially believe in magic because anything ‘tech’ is beyond them.
Willingness to spend ridiculous sums on outside contractors/agencies to ‘speed things up’ without 1) understanding why that doesn’t work and 2) not rewarding employees working their asses off with no raises.
Not saying no to shining new things in a desperate attempt to increase revenue. Failure to realistically analyze and kill such shining new things post launch when they drive no revenue, but increase technical burden.
Devs constantly hammered as not doing things quickly enough by the same people who don’t do actual work other than above checklists.
Failure to recognize that exception handling is critical in things like Ecommerce and you have folks that aren’t going home until all the 1 in 1000 issues are dealt with because a paying customer is actually expecting a product.
People calling into meetings from poolside or better yet Hawaii acting like they are working remotely.
Thinking that MS Teams is just as good as Slack or anything else.
Bit light on details about how they could help the effort outside of just getting their own employees vaccinated. Amazon might make a bigger impact on public health by reducing its actual level of workplace injuries instead.
1 Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally estimated from a number of different sources and is summarised on pages 5 to 17 in this report.
So the report warns to not do exactly what he is doing.