Ran the OC Marathon today. Was hoping to finish in under 4 hours, managed to get it done. Was a lot of fun running with @ctide for most of the race, and a fun weekend overall with many pals.

What’s the best sentence or paragraph you’ve ever come across?

current eta: end of december

JUST IN: Thousands of users are canceling Disney subscriptions after Elon Musk told CEO Bob Iger to "go f*ck yourself" for blackmailing him over advertising on X.

NEWS: Twitter hit all time usage yesterday. “The optimization for Twitter is to maximize the unregretted user time” and “yesterday hit an all-time high.” - Elon Musk at #Possible2023

Why I decided in the late 90’s not to make deals in tourneys: It really came down to not wanting to hurt people’s feelings by only chopping with people who’s game I respected. If I chop with Bob because he is good, and then next week my friend Jim asks to chop but he isn’t very good and I say no, he may say “But you chopped with Bob last week. Why wouldn’t you chop with me?” If I chop with Jim I’m taking the worst of it. I’m a favorite to beat Jim. If I tell the truth, Jim might think I’m an asshole. So to avoid taking the worst of it and also keeping things on the tour friendly with my competitors, I made it a policy to never chop. This way, no one should feel slighted and I avoid uncomfortable conversations with people I may really like, but also don’t think play very well.

An early trend I see happening, which could gain more traction: Product managers joining internal-facing engineering teams (e.g. platform teams, dev tools teams) and bringing some of the practices that treat other engineers as customers. Gathering feedback, personas etc.