Building meaning.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined March 2007
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"The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning."
-@JamesClear
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Every struggling team I’ve turned around had the same root cause: the system was working against them. Once you fix ownership, flow, and feedback loops, the performance issues melt away.
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Last year Mark Russinovich and I wrote a paper on how Software Engineering will redefine the profession, and how early in career engineers may see an “AI Drag,” while seniors will see a significant boost. This paper was published today in the Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Just enough time to share one of my favourite Twitter convos. 🎄
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As an adult, I've thrice encountered a type of person I despise:
The high-achiever who stops chatting with you—after having a great, close, years-long relationship—the moment they no longer perceive you as useful toward gaining power and success in their career path.
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Us: “Super productive week, I’m fully caught up on email and almost done with my big presentation!”
Elon:
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Talent is (really!) everywhere
I've hired people in countries I didn't know existed. And others where I didn't fathom to have programmers in them.
I love the diversity, the broader perspectives and the deeper conversations about weather and local stuff.
The world is a village!
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"A good heurstic: if something is fun, maybe it's your brain telling you there's something important there" @ericevans0 at @ddd_eu #dddeu
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It’s remarkable the number of leaders right now blaming solid ICs for “not working hard enough” when the real issue is the leader’s inability to set a clear goal.
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CT-Ohh EP1 - What is a CTO? youtu.be/JFSCHDUs-eA?si=fAlO… via @YouTube
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Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, has a rule where he never says yes to anything on the spot.
People-pleasing had him making too many commitments.
He says something to the effect of: "Thanks for the invite. I don't say yes to anything on the spot, but I'll let you know if I'm interested."
Turning the choice into a rule lowers the pain of rejection for others and makes the decision easy for you as well.
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Booted up my 16-yr-old high school laptop to open a WWII database that lives on a CD, works only on Windows 98, & exists no where else. The creator is dead. Need help to save the data from technological oblivion. At stake are stories of 5k airmen who fought Hitler from sky. (1/4)
