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Build something for a friend’s problem. You then have a customer that is not you, and external motivation.

What are the symptoms of adult ADHD?

Exactly. The biggest mistake engineers make is thinking non-technical people think the way they do. They don’t.

Everyone else is thinking about getting new customers, and mostly with new features.

They only love to get into the details when product market fit is not working and they need to buy some time and get the investors off their back by justifying some large technical rewrite.

This is an anti-pattern.

But it’s definitely one of those things that sounds good until you try it across a variety of teams and different projects.

Developers love showing off their work. But regular demos create expectations. Software always becomes primarily about expectation management.

Early on progress is rapid and there is lots to show and people like showing it.

Then things slow down and you refactor, fix bugs, and you’re left demoing tiny things or with nothing visible to demo.

But you’ve created expectations of consistent delivery of visible features, and non-technical people don’t get it. And the chain of EM and PM don’t want to tarnish their reputation so they will get teams to hack things for a demo. Code quality suffers, and you are piling on tech debt.

Better: let teams demo things when they are ready to demo. Don’t have a blocked out time for it either. Then it always becomes: “so who is ready to demo?”…and if you’re not you are failing and then it’s a competition with other teams.

Constant iteration and demos are good to make sure you are doing the right thing, but not on a public scheduled interval.

It’s scary how many management concepts that come naturally to new engineers are actually terrible ideas in team/political settings. I think we are too used to dealing unemotional machines…

Biggar was clearly the instigator. Trying to cancel / internet mob the other dude… by actually lying himself now we find out.

There’s so many more factors though than just the mortality rate by age group.

Will they really wait until all elderly are vaccinated first? This would never work.

Just give it to everyone and it goes faster. While we wait for old people to get vaccinated it still circulates among young, who come into contact with old and unvaccinated, hence not helping things.

What’s so bad about skipping the line?

Priority groups don’t even make sense. It’s some egalitarian crap for the sake of it and more so for buying votes from older ppl.

Then we are left with: it’s simply against the rules. And as if people in SF care about that.

Why r so many people in SF on these moral crusades anyway. Getting high off enforcing rules and looking down on others.

Everyone should be equal…as long as I get my ridiculous salary and elite network. It’s like imposter syndrome for the privileged…so they need to pretend they are for the common man.

Good riddance to such crusaders. PG is a boss.

There needs to be trust for this. And there is always a power dynamic at play. Manager to employee. Or even employee to employee where one will eventually get promoted above the other.

Its actually really hard to agree to disagree. You need to have a situation where each person has the same propensity to concede an argument. Like a code review - just do what the other person suggests instead of arguing about it if it really doesn’t matter that much.

Founders, executives and managers are all emotional beings. They can only handle so much criticism, regardless of if it is the right criticism they need to hear.

Imagine giving a speech to your team, and there is one employee who is rolling their eyes and smirking at things you say, and who you know disagrees with you. It’s very difficult to block out - and their are few who can handle that. You may be 100% onboard after a heated discussion and not making any outward gestures, but your mere presence will leave the person imagining you are rolling your eyes. And this festers.

You need to find a way to put yourself in their shoes and really feel what it’s like to have someone very critical of things around.

Yea, reputation is everything and you should never be completely open and it’s why people water down everything they say and end up kissing ass.

Even people who say they can take any criticism can’t. This is the best lesson you can learn.

In a sane world, his job wouldn’t even need to exist.

Most people interested in diversity thrive on creating drama and conflict. Embarking on witch hunts. Arbitrating blame.

What comes around goes around.

I feel like all smoking advertising and education is wrong.

Smoking will kill you or is bad for you is a message that few care about.

Trying to scare people doesn’t work. People can smoke a pack a day for 20+ years and be fine.

It is the addictive associative nature of it that should have the focus.

If you smoke when you drink, you will have cravings when you drink that will last a life time.

People always think they can stop, but they don’t consider the other events that will be occurring whilst they try to.

It’s a task that must be conducted on top of all the stressful events people deal with during life. It will become a constant multitasking job running alongside everything else.

The moment you can’t focus on work without a smoke break is when you are hooked.

And people don’t grasp the experience of cancer properly. The slow random nature of it. And the years of looking into the abyss with complete regret.

We need to find ways to immerse people in future scenarios to get them to understand addiction and how it happens. Maybe draw an analogy to addictions they already have.

Sustaining performance with less employees is actually the goal of execs.

There may be a little exaggeration. But there are many occasions where if I do not move out of the way or stop walking when I have right of way, I would be hit at high speed.

I think people make the mistake of thinking that the people who get bonuses are easily replaceable.

The executive market of people who have experience at these kinds of levels is extremely thin. Your company needs to be attractive to this high echelon of talent.

That means keeping a good record of treatment to executives.

I think the thought of: “just pay them less or they can leave” is pretty common. But it’s just not easy to recruit at this level and the responsibility is huge.

There is a slight PR angle to avoid looking greedy, but its moreso just the nature of the talent market at this level.

What is web traffic like? Do you pay mapbox?

You’re just jealous

How much did they pay (insert race) after WW2?

As a pedestrian I am routinely almost killed by cyclists.

Mac is very popular with devs.

Try Pulumi.