https://doismiu.blog/tags/career/Recent content in Career on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usSun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/<p>I have been spending a considerable amount of time aboard the original USS Enterprise lately. While it is easy to get charmed by Captain Kirk&rsquo;s chaotic charisma or Spock&rsquo;s cold logic, the truth needs to be said. The real genius of that ship does not wear gold or blue. He wears red and has a questionable Scottish accent.</p> <p>I am talking about Montgomery &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Scott.</p> <p><figure><img src="https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/scotty.gif" alt="Scotty!" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-full="/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/scotty.gif" width="480" height="360"> </figure></p> <p>Many look at the Chief Engineer and see comic relief or a man who enjoys complaining that &ldquo;the engines cannot take it&rdquo; a little too much. They are wrong. Scotty is the only adult in the room. He is the greatest practitioner of the lost art of <strong>Expectation Management</strong>.</p>