Englishman in California; Photographer; Snowboarder; Recovering adrenaline junky. Founder @RangeDotCo. Formerly: engineering at Medium, Google. He/him
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Dan Pupius retweeted
20 Jul 2023
Teams that do regular debriefs (meetings focused only on learning from past team performance) improve team performance by up to 25%, but they are often infrequent, conducted only after things go wrong or big projects end.
Research on the best approaches: psycnet.apa.org/buy/2018-232…
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17 May 2023
Worth noting that 1870 was close to peak; a time where work weeks were 70hrs and it was common to see children in factories.
By comparison, 14th century casual laborers worked about 1400 hours and 15th century farmer/miner worked about 1900.
14 May 2023
Capitalism has so permeated our existence that "average hours worked" has been consistently declining for decades.
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17 May 2023
As well as pressure from the labour movement, reduced work hours gained popularity during the great depression because it meant there was more work to go around.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
31 Mar 2023
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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25 Feb 2023
kind of can't believe this isn't table stakes by now, or built into the platform. I remember @aaryte spending a bunch of time making this work on Gmail Chat, circa 2006.
A li’l quality-of-life update:
Before, you had to be really precise with your cursor so menus wouldn’t disappear on you. Should feel much more polished now 🫡
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Dan Pupius retweeted
26 Jan 2023
One of the most common mistakes even experienced managers make is assigning tasks, rather than assigning accountabilities with tasks included. I’ve made this mistake many times. Thread >>
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24 Jan 2023
How to accidentally brick your @ArcInternet browser: try restarting using chrome://restart
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12 Jan 2023
Much needed and reservoirs are at 85% historical averages.
12 Jan 2023
24,500,000,000,000 gallons of water have fallen across California over the last 16 days.
That’s 24.5 trillion gallons.
Major drought relief.
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12 Jan 2023
This graph of Shasta lake levels shows the storm impact in a cool way.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
8 Jan 2023
The Sierra Nevada is going to get absolutely buried.
Red Peak in @YosemiteNPS is forecast to see 153" of snow in the next 5 days, and 23.25 feet in the next 10 days.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
1 Jan 2023
Start-up life = hard won insights. Here are my top 10 for this year.
1. Doing well at a start-up is not simply about skill, it is about mentality.
A start-up mentality values action over correctness, results over process. It suits those that value autonomy over clarity.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
14 Dec 2022
California has had a best-case-scenario fall season.
Not only did we escape having a severe fire season, but we've had a huge start to the wet season, with the state snowpack over 200% of normal.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
30 Nov 2022
👇My framework for what makes a great product manager. I think this works for about 70% of companies but may look a bit different depending on your industry, business model and size. Is there anything you would add or remove?
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8 Nov 2022
Hopefully not calling it too early, but can we pause for a moment to acknowledge that we got off fairly lightly with the California fire season this year.
300k acres burnt, or less than ⅕ the 5 year average. And no days in SF where the sun didn't come up.
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Dan Pupius retweeted
6 Nov 2022
Have seen great things get built with and without the intensity you're describing (and I agree it can feel incredible).
The challenge is separating the cases where it happens for the sake of *looking like* something great is happening. Greatness and cargo cults look so similar.
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6 Nov 2022
We need more than just ideas of things we wish to avoid.
We need more than a moral mission or even the search of truth.
We also need an aesthetic longing that calls us: a sense of beauty, of good taste, of inspiration, of creativity.
link.medium.com/yIUaC7WmKub
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Dan Pupius retweeted
3 Nov 2022
Find out what engineering team meetings look like with @dxna from @squarespace
range.co/blog/how-teams-work…
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24 Oct 2022
We called this hybrid rendering in 2011. patents.google.com/patent/US…
24 Oct 2022
When you visit a site with Universal Rendering, at first it behaves exactly like a server-side rendered app.
The server processes the request, and sends the rendered page back to you.
But here is where it's different.
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