Director of Engineering at instedd.org. Founder at manas.tech
Joined December 2007
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6 Feb 2023
This is a great example of the pitfalls of epistemic (dis)incentives of expert dominated systems and why we should read @ESYudkowsky 's “Inadequate Equilibria”; it can literally save lives.
propublica.org/article/muscu…
equilibriabook.com/
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If a factory worked like a software development shop, the car would be redesigned continuously as it moved along the line. You'd have no idea what the car would look like until you delivered it, and every car you delivered would be different. We do not work in a factory.
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2 Jun 2022
i think we underappreciate the strength of character required of a person to pick breadth over depth. all the incentives push you to join a tribe and take on a pre-packaged identity — choosing not to is almost an act of rebellion
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Almost everything bad in the way large businesses are run comes down to distrust and opacity. Trusting people to do their work, and making that easy by making process transparent, is a game changer.
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21 Mar 2022
In 1979, Christopher Alexander wrote "The Timeless Way of Building," intuiting there was a quality for things that had life but could not pinpoint it with precision. 1/3
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21 Mar 2022
In 2002, in "The Nature of Order," he managed to distill that quality to its essentials, in the process redefining the concept of life. 2/3
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21 Mar 2022
In a time when our attention spans are constantly shortening, I have deep thankfulness for this man's decades of unrelenting focus. His legacy has implications for pretty much any discipline that interacts with humans. 3/3
Christopher passed away on March 17, 2022.
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3 Mar 2022
Early in my career, a mentor broke down the different kinds of PMs for me. I had no idea that there were different kinds. One’s not better than another, but playing to your strengths interests can help you land the role you want.
What kind of PM are / do you want to be?
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An org that never experiments—tries radical ideas to see how they work—is hardly agile. Agile is not a process or framework, it's a frame of mind, and experimental learning is a big part of that.
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9 Dec 2021
I am sick and tired of outbound marketing. Email and LinkedIn messages have become unusable to me thanks to this. Careful crafting of those emails not only bypasses google filters but it evens hijacks my cognitive ability to ignore them.
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9 Dec 2021
There has to be a better way to sell each other stuff. In the meantime, I’m responding with this to create a bit of friction on the other side. At least it add a cost back to the automated interruption. 15minutes.ofmytime.tech/
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9 Dec 2021
You can also respond marketing emails with:
10minutes.ofmytime.tech/
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Agile has nothing to do with methodology. In fact, the whole idea of a methodology is odds with agility, given that methodologies are all about standardization. They are inflexible by definition. I wouldn't worry about "which Agile methodology is best." →
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14 Apr 2021
I'll be presenting at the @nyit Symposium:Best Practices for Community-based and Multidisciplinary, Comprehensive Disaster Response, together with a group of amazing people. You can check the schedule: nyit.edu/events/soad_lecture… and signup: nyit.edu/architecture/archev…. Free and open.
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15 Dec 2019
15. The set of things people worry about learning is ~arbitrary, a minute sliver of what's out there. The process of identifying, creating curricula for, and developing educators to support learning a topic is so slow so as to make content-first reformers largely irrelevant.
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6 Nov 2020
I’ll be giving a talk on Data Collaboration in 2 hours. Many other great presentations on this open and free conf today and tomorrow. Kudos to @OpenMapLebanon!
6 Nov 2020
Starting in just a few minutes:
Keynote talk by Mathilde Morée who is responsible for supporting education and research institutes to capture the value of #satelliteimagery @planetlabs
bit.ly/BeirutBlastKeynoteIV
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12 Jun 2020
"All the easy problems are already solved. The remaining things to be fixed, solved and improved are the tough ones. The wicked problems." medium.com/manas-tech/on-the…
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5 Mar 2020
I just published 7-step guide to build your own time management method link.medium.com/NLKZeMvMB4
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