HN certainly has taken this seriously, which IMHO is disappointing.
1300+ comments on something that has hardly anything to do with technology. Really?
To me, this is a dumb and actually kind of funny list, due to some ridiculous notions (e.g. "stand up meeting" is ablelist?) that seem poorly put together with zero thought for context. It's as if someone got an assignment to put this together and tried to really, really stretch any possible connection they could into this. Like you said, a "bullshit time-consuming initiative".
That's all it is. I don't get why people are paying attention to it. It's not worth much thought at all.
It's worth some thought because, while we deal with technology, we also live in a society. That society is currently going through a bout of insanity. It affects us. It's like a fish living in polluted water. You don't care about factories on land, because you're a fish. Except, when they pollute the water you live in, you do care.
And Stanford has a certain amount of cachet, or influence, or reach, or whatever, even into tech circles and tech companies. So this nonsense may be coming soon to the company you or I work at. So, yeah, we care. We take it seriously, because it impacts us.
1300+ comments on something that has hardly anything to do with technology. Really?
To me, this is a dumb and actually kind of funny list, due to some ridiculous notions (e.g. "stand up meeting" is ablelist?) that seem poorly put together with zero thought for context. It's as if someone got an assignment to put this together and tried to really, really stretch any possible connection they could into this. Like you said, a "bullshit time-consuming initiative".
That's all it is. I don't get why people are paying attention to it. It's not worth much thought at all.