Or this isn't real and is just a scare tactic

Source on the 100+ drone pilots an cell carriers? I've been hoping to find an article on how they staged the pilots for manual guidance. I imagined they would have had to tunnelled all that traffic to each operator from the truck, but the cell towers is clever

DARPA might be an exception to that rule. I've always been inspired by dARPA

We need a cross-cutting examination of how bad 'economics' is as a science, outside of a narrow defined set of measurable parameters

Economics is a great way of looking at the world as long as you acknowledge its limitations. I think you're conflating an economist with economics. Economists are human with all that entails.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-o... (4 April 2016)

Absolutely terrible.

The foundations of economics are built on school boy style maths errors.

They have famous "paradoxes" and results that are just bad maths.

It's a ridiculous joke of a research field.

If you’re going to dismiss an entire field, you could at least point to specifics that are widely held tenants.

A rational actor has never, does not now, and will never exist.

Despite what social media stoics say.

There needs to be some careful human-in-the-loop analysis in general, and a feedback loop for false positives.

Could you expand on the "Not too rigorous cost accounting"

Not OP, but my take:

Goodheart’s law states: “ When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

If your accounting is too fine grained, there becomes an inescapable draw to point at a metric and declare that a goal.

Once that happens, engineering tasks can be come extremely well defined to the point of acting like tunnel vision.

Instead of finding improvements or innovations generally, the focus is entirely on moving a specific metric.

You see this issue in highly metric driven orgs as well.

noobermin is rihgt. I've been reading a book about gastroenterology and it is surprising how many decades occur between research, findings, medical acceptance, and then eventually application to the public.

What book? Sounds interesting.

I've experienced this in the corporate world too, when someone is seeking a promotion. Entitlement is becoming a bane

Yes indeed. I’ve seen similar there too.

I like this, but there are only 17 and the majority are "Chief Financial Officer" or similar. Any other fractional job boards?

Founder of https://fractionaljobs.io here, yes you're right. But we spend dozens of hours a week sourcing the whole web for open fractional roles. So it's not that this board doesn't have the ones you want, it's that there just aren't that many available yet.

But we're doing everything we can to accelerate this. We have about 5 new jobs launching tomorrow.

Through some work I've done the last couple years, I've been exposed to a couple consultants who specialize in using fractional work within organizations. Between them, their clients, and others I've known who have gone that direction, I think I see a flaw here -- such jobs exist, but are rarely posted on the web.

"Fractional" is a term that is often focused on leadership roles more than part time IC gigs. You will find such roles when talking to C-level leaders at organizations who are having growing pains - maybe their IC hiring is outpacing the director-level hiring, maybe they grew too fast to fully develop all the skills needed. Either way, the exec team is overwhelmed. They know they need more leadership, but don't want to build out a large middle management layer. So they are looking for solutions to a problem.

Because of that, if you are trying to accelerate, stop scouring the web. Scouring the web just puts you in a reactive position, acting as a recruiter and hoping the people you find happen to match the posting. Instead, get talking directly to C-level execs and board members at small/medium-sized growing companies, and be the consultant guiding them to decide whether they need to hire, or if contracting a fractional leader into their org is a better solution. Let your postings be the results of those conversations, and keep getting to know people who are looking for fractional work. Tie those two together, and you'll see acceleration.