120k+ tech layoffs so far in 2022. Climate tech, meanwhile, is booming. There's a great rotation in talent to be unlocked.
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Pondering what’s next. VPE Dropbox, SVP Blink Health, CTO Etsy, Flickr Architect. Technical solutions for social problems. #47. A's dad. Hope before optimism.
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Something has gone horribly wrong with Google’s spam filtering
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There is a high correlation between having power and being an asshole. Some of those people you think are decent are still pretending. That doesn't mean most decent people are pretending. That's a sampling error.
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I _keep_ seeing people on here making the point that somehow SBF proves that being decent is all an act. To amplify Tom, assholes have _always_ pretended to be decent to get power.
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All it means is that assholes attempt to pretend to be decent people in order to get influence and power. No one is surprised by that. That doesn’t mean everyone who appears to be a decent person is lying.
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One good answer I got to this (, ) was the Welch -> Microsoft pipeline of practices. Now that GE is a ruined shell largely attributable to Welch’s legacy are there practices we should revisit?
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I'd be really interested in a history of how and when different management practices became popular in tech. Like we know 360 feedback was invented by the Nazis during WWII, but when did it become de rigueur for startups?
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I’ve advised a number of brands on this move, but again, I wish people would save the triumphant blog posts for after they have a year of experience operating a new stack.
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In the biggest Shopify ecosystem news you haven’t heard:
Giant Tiger, the $2B Canadian Retailer, ripped out their tech stack and replaced it with Shopify Plus, ShipHero and several other modern tech companies.
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I'd be really interested in a history of how and when different management practices became popular in tech. Like we know 360 feedback was invented by the Nazis during WWII, but when did it become de rigueur for startups?
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Coffee with an experienced CTO this afternoon came with an important reminder: it's always a good time to re-read "High Output Management".
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EM is a good reminder of how much higher the standards are for leadership these days, and how low the bar was on leadership and technical ability to break into this industry when most of our luminaries got in.
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Least expected aspect of job search, starting to know my way around Teams video chat
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I'm checking the list of services I login to with Twitter, and maybe making alternative arrangements. twitter.com/settings/conne
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The scene at Twitter HQ as Community Manager Musk reads the room:
“What should I tell them?”
“Blame it on the existing framework by telling them the RPCs are poorly batched.”
“Ok thanks, got it.”
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It’s interesting how these EA dudes always seem to arrive at “the best way to benefit humanity is for ME to be as *personally rich* as possible”.
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I’m thinking about the many, many amazing talks and case studies Twitter engineering published over the last decade about how insane was it to keep the site up during World Cups.
Well, guess what starts in about a week?
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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This utterly ridiculous. Who ever heard of an org chart bar graph? Should have used a scatter plot.
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Let’s compare the organizational design of two hypothetical startups. Each has 4 layers in the company: CEO, VP/Director, Manager & Individual Contributor (IC).
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Noticing the quality of ads on here has really plummeted, a mix of the shitty ecommerce ads I see on Insta and the shitty ads from mobile games.
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Making senior managers write code is a great way to strip them of time to have opinions about things and to reduce their overall influence and power in a company. It's as much a power play on the part of Management against engineering as anything else.
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Also at kellan@fiasco.social
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To be clear “Kill it With Fire” is excellent, and one of the few books that introduces new insights to our industry’s conversations.
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Who are they calling a legacy codebase?
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Is your legacy software system no longer meeting your business goals? At our next #CodeAsCraft Speaker Series, Software Engineer @bellmar and Etsy’s own @gredaline will share strategies for modernizing legacy codebases. Sign up here: bit.ly/3sjCcLf
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Hypothesis: a huge percentage of active Twitter users would be happily served by an RSS reader that de-centered the details of RSS.
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Watching “The Peripheral”in 2022 on 75F day in November, after Covid, the Jackpot hits a lot harder than it did reading it in 2014.
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It is freakishly warm out there for after dark in NY in November
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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Went ahead and cancelled Blue today. I'm going to miss the edit feature.
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Scribbled down a note on vacation last week, "the messiness was a feature", now that I'm home, added a bit more flesh to it, mostly as a reminder not to get too clever thinking about the next thing,
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Any good writing on the design decisions that went into ? Especially that situates it in comparison with existing and previous efforts?
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“And in describing our lunches, we described our hopes and our lives in ways that the other networks could never replicate.”
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I'm in @slate this morning writing about Musk and Twitter and how it's time to get weird. slate.com/technology/202
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Being laid off (or fired) sucks. Even those times when you know it’s probably for the best. Lot of people are caught off guard by how hard it hits them. Be kind to yourself. And lean on your friends. We’ve been there. Retreating rarely helps.
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Today I learned a blue throated pike blenny will attack its reflection
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Unsurprisingly the Stripe layoff comms are an example of how to do it
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New timezones dropped?
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Anyone know a dive log app that helps with identifying and logging what you saw similar to the various birding apps?
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Visited an elkhorn coral farm
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