Have technology, please supply problem. Boink.

Happy put your snow-brush in the car day to all those who celebrate.

Weirdly reminded today of just how impactful the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was to my youth. Good art makes you feel something, great art makes impact, and that album was a masterpiece front to back.

OH: "I'm very meme'y"

“I’m not getting something I need” “Have you tried asking for it?” “Hmm that seems like a good idea.”

OH: "bro communicating with ur coworkers is pretty cool"

Been reflecting on the role Toxic individualism plays in corporate culture. Some pretty significant signals - Meetings are seen as a negative thing - conversations are shut down because they're taking to much time - squeaky wheel gets the grease - Command and Control is the soup du jour. What else?

Wow I haven't felt the urge to subtweet this hard in awhile. Fucking hell.

Fucking hell. Leadership can be incredibly fulfilling and draining all at the same time. Like simultaneously some of the most impactful work and some of the most difficult work I have ever done.

Happy Wednesday, I just broke my glasses for the second time in 10 days 😔 so that's how my day is going.

Does the binary nature of "What went well" and "What didn't go well" annoy anyone else? It's been awhile since I've gotten into a fight about how Mechanistic Reasoning is hiding in our mental models so much that we don't even realize they're hiding in there.

You sit on a throne of Lies!

Also hi new followers, happy to see a space that feels like old tech twitter again. Not sure how much I will engage in it because *gestures at the general state of the world* but it feels good that it's here.

Ah the classic "it can't be that hard". Nothing screams I have no idea what you do or how you do it than "it can't be that hard".

Sad to see corporate policies erase years of work in OSS. I guess we should have been more prepared but damn like that's some bullshit to just kill a project and not tell anyone associated with it.

8 1 on 1s in a single day. 😅 And people wonder how I keep a pulse on the organization.

"the systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another" Who doesn't need a microdose of Existentialism on a Friday morning 😂 harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/a...

A sign of a good manager is that they read through what you're saying and ask deeper questions to find out more. This is true for both what you're excited about and what is bothering you. And if you're midwestern, when you say everything is fine. They seek to understand and find common ground.

I am going absolutely ape shit over this CNCF whitepaper on Platforms. It's like they took everything we've been building at Total Expert over the last 3 years and turned into a whitepaper. It's validation of what we've been doing is insane: tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/...

For the morning crowd

I'm excited to announce devopsdays Minneapolis is back for 2024 August 6th-7th! devopsdays.org/events/2024-...

Leadership is wild. You can just make someone’s good idea become a priority and let them work on it. 🙃 The bar is so fucking low holy shit.

No Brians, I don’t want to schedule a call to talk about how your product I’ve never heard of can help me do things I’m already doing. Seriously are they all named Brian? Feels like a conspiracy.

I didn't realize Loki season 2 was about backlog grooming.

This might sound cynical, but it really isn’t. I played way too much poker in college, like easily hundreds of hours at a poker table. I had no idea how much that would prepare me for the corporate world. Intuition in reading people is an insanely valuable skill.

What % of leadership is based on intuition?

"Developers of methods (and theories) tend to become attached to them. This might seem a strange departure from the scientific ideal, but is very human." Excellent post @stevenshorrock.bsky.social. We get so fixated on working within a system we often forget to question the method that created it.

Target's loss prevention group going galaxy brain up in here. If we don't have any customers no one can steal anything. 🤯

Oh sure building a product to compete with things that are mostly free is definitely worth 100s of millions of dollars in revenue. In other news Media companies are still not good at being software companies..news at 11.

Vanity metrics, same as it ever was. 🪓 🪵 🪣💧

For the record, "Continuous Resilience" is not a thing. Resilience is continuous. There's no "non" continuous resilience. Adaptation is always happening! One paper on the topic: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seeing an acquired company's product basically shit the bed after being "rebranded" over the weekend is bringing back some buried memories. #hugops to the folks at Divvy today 😬

Missing you today friend. Hard to believe it's been a year already. Too many times in the last year I've missed not having your ear and advice.

Wow bluesky is definitely the closest thing to OG Twitter I've seen.