I miss the days when I'd click every link and follow every rabbit hole. 100% completionism of collection games. It's shaped how my life has turned out, for better and worse.

> I learned to trust that someone understands the code and between blames and Slack I can almost always hunt that person down.

Does your company not have many retirements, firings, or employees who quit to work elsewhere?

On the flip side, the drugs may have decreased the ideations. The entire point of it being a trial is that it's unknown.

Then why don't you tell the room who it is?

Nobody wants to be responsible because those who are responsible end up taking the blame.

That's tautological.

True. A better way to say it would have been to say that when taking the blame carries professional or financial risk, the smart move is to avoid it. When everyone cooperates, everyone wins (until the system breaks down); if all but one cooperates, it gets pinned on a fall guy (to the same effect).

Perhaps a blindfolded person and a person who has always been blind have very different expectations of how to use software, such that they would give divergent opinions on what makes a good screen reader UI.

In theory this is certainly true. In practice the most common experience is software where UI elements are completely unreachable from the keyboard, and/or have no label at all. If you talk to tech-savvy Blind people for a while you invariably hear things like "the app doesn't have labels but I know the third link is the settings page, so I just count until I hear 'link' 3 times". Most people aren't going to hire an outside person to test their project, and frankly I think that's often reasonable for personal projects and small companies. But if you exercise the UI flow yourself, at least you know it's possible to use it.

Would you like a golden sticker?

Do they do actual damage, or is this egghead economic theory?

The problem is that most computer-touching is too easily self-taught to have a proper union that won't immediately be undermined by those who offer their services without asking permission.