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9 Mar 2021
Work isn't inherently valuable. People are. #Agile (also #UniversalBasicIncome)
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24 Nov 2024
"Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/ WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is." theguardian.com/commentisfre… #laterthanyouthink

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23 Nov 2024
"A project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. If you deploy your system, but your manager or VP or CEO is very unhappy with it, you did not ship." seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship… #ship #productmanagement
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22 Nov 2024
"There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap." founders.simplecast.com/epis… #work #consistency #vs #intensity
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21 Nov 2024
"When you happen across one of these four-leaf clovers, you obviously should do it, regardless of whether you consider it Sand (because it's fast) or a Pebble (because it has impact)." longform.asmartbear.com/rock… #priority #focus #order #batchsize
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19 Nov 2024
"You should first create the universe and the jungle and use dependency injection to provide every tree one at a time, then generate the monkey to grab and eat the banana." tselai.com/llm-frameworks #ai #llm #orm #ofc
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13 Nov 2024
"Continuous improvement isn't nearly as important as discontinuous improvement. Creativity is a discontinuity. A creative act breaks with the chain that has come before it. It's not continuous. One never bec..." solvingforpattern.org/2012/0… #continuousimprovement #creativity #leade
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12 Nov 2024
"I use my intellect, but I don't live there." jonimitchell.com/library/vie…

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11 Nov 2024
"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking." paulgraham.com/writes.html #ai #writing #thinking

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10 Nov 2024
"A false proxy is convenient, vivid and unhelpful. It's like asking a programmer how many words per minute they can type. It might be useful to be a fast typist, but it doesn't help you become a great programmer." seths.blog/2024/10/five-less… #productivity #measurement #proxy
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9 Nov 2024
"The main problem, though, is that creating a PI plan for a quarter, executing it in sprints, and delivering whatever passes tests at the end of the quarter ignores the entire reason for agile product development: unc..." infoq.com/articles/replace-p… #agile #dogma #humility #engine
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7 Nov 2024
"In all cases, when there's something the team needs to do or fix, you are considered responsible for making sure it happens." medium.com/engineering-manag… #management #responsibility #nothing
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6 Nov 2024
"The well-defined 'separate, distinct program modules' covers about half of the suggested benefits of microservices, and we've been able to do that for fifty years." blogs.newardassociates.com/b… #softwarenengineering #softwarearchitecture

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5 Nov 2024
"When a person has a mental breakdown and the guards gently restrain them, repeating phrases like 'This isn't between you and me, we care about you, we love you, calm down, let's have a coffee after this,' — well, that is bound to change you." thetaoist.online/what-if-fre…

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4 Nov 2024
"Despite the fact that organizations from the OECD to the IMF have recognized that inequality is itself a brake on economic growth, fostering destructive "rent seeking" (seen today online in the form of enshittificati..." doctorow.medium.com/the-prob… #economics #models #enshittific
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3 Nov 2024
"What I see happening in real companies is that different teams make different marketing actions on the same users." towardsdatascience.com/using… #productmanagement #marketing #silos

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2 Nov 2024
"If the problem is one of estimation, then commit to half as much work and see what happens. If you run out of work to do, you can always throw more things on there. If you haven't even tried this, the most obvious thing on the planet, then yo..." ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-wi… #esti

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