Don’t underestimate the ass covering.

I recon 60% of management consulting work is just to ass cover for a director with no conviction

The more expensive the cover the better.

“I paid a world-class consulting consultant company top dollar to vet this idea and they produced ton of documents about how great it was. And, yet it failed. But, I’m not at fault here. What more would you have had me do?”

There was an article on HN years ago about top grade from Harvard-like schools being sucked into consulting companies and discovering their job was to be paid tons of money writing reports that support whatever the exec of the moment wanted to hear.

> their job was to be paid tons of money writing reports that support whatever the exec of the moment wanted to hear

Sounds like an extremely nice job.

Not really.

Well, depends on how much money is "tons of money".

Do you have a link? I can't find it.

Yeah, I think that's the majority of the grunt work done by junior consultants.

I don't doubt that if the high level decision agreed upon is "more layoffs because AI" and they were asked for a 60 page report to justify it that ChatGPT would help inordinately in fleshing it out with something that sounds fairly plausible.

There's a lot of boilerplate that actually takes quite a while to write from scratch. If the people involved have a pretty good idea in their heads of what fundamentals are fairly sensible and which are probably sort of irrelevant or even wrong, something like ChatGPT is actually pretty good at churning out at least a decent pre-draft that can save quite a bit of time. I've used it a fair bit for introductory background that I can certainly clean up faster than I could put together from scratch.

I wish there was less ad hominum in this article " group of highly privileged white men" and more depth on the actual counterarguments.

Incredible it has taken this long

I don't think it's revolutionary. They simply seem to have focused the role on what's important for them.

I think it is nice to have a kitchen if it’s more than a few days.

But the chores are a bit much sometimes

I highly recommend Hilton's Airbnb competitor Home2.

I really dislike AirBnB, but I don't think they've got anything to worry about with Hotel2. Even calling them a competitor seems like a massive stretch. Just poking around their site to see what's available in my area: $240/night gets you what is, well... a hotel room. Except that it has a couch and a microwave in it. Calling such a thing a "suite" makes me feel like Hilton is gaslighting me.

I just checked out the Home2 offerings near where I just stayed in an AirBnB. The prices are significantly higher and there are only three options (AirBnB had 25+).

So not quite there yet. :)

This seems more a problem in how this specific public transport is run, than with public transport in general.

I think it's more general, trains have lots of single points of failure while there are normally many roads that can be used to get to a destination.

My experience in Germany is that the trains there are even worse. Every single one was delayed by up to half an hour.

Yeah I fully agree doing this is super hard in practice. If you want it, for sure that can be a great place to start!

Also, although “make something people want” is pretty simple, still people forget it all the time (Including me btw). So it’s as much a self reminder as anything!

God Save the King

Britain does have a constitution

The road deaths surprise me the most , as most American roads are big and straight and most British roads are small and squiggly!

I can guess a few reasons:

* Cars tend to be bigger i.e. more dangerous in the US

* Drink driving seems to be more acceptable in the USA.

* The driving test in the UK is much tougher than even the toughest us state

* Most of the US don't have mandatory annual vehicle inspections to check they're safe and roadworthy

It's counterintuitive, but broad and straight roads are often more dangerous, as they invite faster driving.

Faster *inattentive* driving.

I'm always kind of surprised how terrified Americans visiting the UK are, when they see the kind of speeds people drive at here.

If you're coming here on holiday from the US and you're planning your route using Google Maps, double the time estimate. You won't like the speeds it expects you to drive at.

Big and straight allows higher speeds and less need to pay attention. Lane width is a major contributor to the actual speed driven.

> roads are big and straight

To accommodate big cars.