if we have to keep the term "cost center" around maybe we can at least apply it to all functional teams rather than just any team whose work we want to devalue. actually, maybe i agree with drucker - all teams are cost centers, and the only profit center is a check that doesn't bounce

who wants to watch this for 8 hours with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCs-...

@lizthegrey.com phrase from today that will stick with me: "paws on keyboard" 🐾🐾

desperately not wanting to be part of the system (that feeling is part of the system)

one sentence horror: "And when I explained this to Alice, my ChatGPT therapist, she understood."

realizing that my long-held avoidance of posting anything vaguely meaningful has been because of a conviction that what is happening in this country would happen; as well as drive to keep the feed clean in case the horrible companies that often gatekeep jobs check my social media

@chicago.devopsdays.org slides up: speakerdeck.com/reidsavage/a... might turn the speaker notes into a post as well at a l8r d8 #DevOpsDays

@divineops.net made the cutest yak, thank you so much!

some spicy unrecorded hot takes 🔥

oh hey it's me!

goal: be gayer (like in the site reliability engineering sense)

omg who wants an invite to my I Saw The TV Glow themed birthday in the Birthday Room at Regal Cinemas in Chicago, Illinois

do not describe me!

"you can smile if you want". what about a surprise DL photo when i haven't showered or shaved makes you think i want to smile (i desperately do but physically cannot)

every time i hit the credits of tv glow i tear up

femininomenology

i've got a sleepy build

writing an article i would have liked to have read when i started managing (what is management actually?) and the answer i'm coming to is it's the crappy corp stuff nobody else can do - perf management and firing people - but also everything else, pro re nata.

combination truck stop arby's Fallen Soldier Table in Du Bois, PA

today i learned the only reason you can visit fallingwater is because the owner's son was gay and had no kids and donated it