🥦 🐶 ⏳💊 Guitarist | Musician | Software Engineer | Pedal Nerd
Chipping Sodbury/London
Joined December 2008
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"He taught me that “the standard pace is for chumps” — that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects." -- one of my all-time favorite Sivers' essays. sive.rs/kimo
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It might be that many software business models don't work when engineers cost $400k/year.
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💻 Developers:
"I hate meetings"
"Just let me code, I'll skip this one"
"Sigh, not *another* meeting"
☹️ Also developers:
"This project has no clear vision."
"Management has no idea what's going on."
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"Silicon Valley once served as the last refuge of renegades and dropouts, wild-eyed prophets and daring pioneers, the sort of place that would take ... Steve Jobs in. Nowadays, he and people like him wouldn’t last a day inside the companies they created."
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Bets, not backlogs. Every 6 weeks we decide what we want to do next based on where we are *now*. No backlogs, no long lists of things we need to get to, no walls with post-it notes. Read all about “Bets, Not Backlogs” in Shape Up here —>basecamp.com/shapeup/2.1-cha…
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“Ruby was fast enough in 2003 to build a business like Basecamp with no impediments. Ruby is so much faster and so much cheaper in 2016 it’s ridiculous. On the other hand, skilled programmers have never been more expensive” gets truer still with each year. m.signalvnoise.com/ruby-has-…
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That's the good thing about Amazon killing small retailers. Now their owners and operators can get a job packaging your prime order instead, while a robot tells them they're behind the quota, and you get your counterfeit good a smidge faster. Who says society can't progress 🎉
Amazon expanded its workforce by more than 400,000 in 10 months. It is mind boggling.
@KYWeise has many big, bonkers numbers and perspective:
"The closest comparisons are the hiring that entire industries carried out in wartime."
nytimes.com/2020/11/27/techn…
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Holy fuck. The word dystopian is not nearly strong enough to describe the fresh hellhole Microsoft just opened up. Just as the reputation of a new and better company was being built, they detonate it with the most invasive work-place surveillance scheme yet to hit mainstream.
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This now deleted tweet is hilarious.
TFW your own algorithms and monetization incentives are to blame for behavior that you rib your creators for.
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Welcome to Bristol Beacon.
A symbol of hope and community. A place of welcome, warmth and light. An open invitation to the city for everyone to come and share in the joy of live music.
Find out more: bristolbeacon.org/
Poem by @Vanessa_Kisuule
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