Some managers are treating their employees as factory workers in the industrial revolution.
However, many of those employees today are knowledge workers. They only need a laptop and an internet connection to do their job.
They use online tools to store shared information.
The climate and ecological crisis is rapidly escalating. G7 spends fantasy amounts on fossil fuels as CO2 emissions are forecast for 2nd biggest annual rise ever.
This calls for steak-and-lobster-BBQ-celebration while jet planes perform aerobatics in the sky above the G7 resort!
I call the restaurant direct. Then I go directly to the restaurant. Dining out is an honor and a treat, and I tip well, smile, and I’m patient if the order is not perfect. There are real people behind the scenes. I don’t want to operate them through a delivery machine.
So I am almost physically incapable of not being enthralled by a space launch. And seeing something, anything competently done is quenching some deep thirst right now.
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We are thrilled to announce that skillsmatter.com — including the SkillCast library — is back online!
Thank you all very much for your patience and all the support you have shown us over the past few months.
"Scale" is usually a code word for "put this Agile thing under the complete control of centralized management so that we can monitor it closely".
"Scaling Agile" hardly ever gives you something that's actually Agile.
It seems that @SiemensDE have the power to stop, delay or at least interrupt the building of the huge Adani coal mine in Australia. On Monday they will announce their decision. Please help pushing them to make the only right decision. #StopAdani
There should be a FailConf. The speakers would share stories about a time they failed then discuss what they learned and how they recovered from that failure.
That’s exactly what I think. I work with an entire company of incredibly competent, caring, and successful people who’ve managed to do just that. Get good at what they do without sacrificing all other parts of existence on the altar of work. There a millions of people like that!
This stuff boggles my mind. @dhh seems to think people in general can get good at something they to the level they want, while playing video games, racing cars, and binge watching TV
Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C exceeding the record set on Tuesday, 40.9 ºC. You can view the top ten highest daily maximum temps here: ow.ly/Jg3f50xDRyv
oh my god, scientists have found a new planet that we could probably inhabit; it's already got the right atmosphere, distance from its star, even infrastructure for humans! literally all we;d have to do is lower carbon emissions and it'd be totally habitable for humans
Now that Lambda Provisioned Concurrency is live, I can finally share my post on it - why it's important, what is it and how does it really work, and some rough edges to look out for for now (expect them to be fixed soon!) lumigo.io/blog/the-end-of-th…#serverless#aws#awslambda