OH, 10-yr-old boy at a birthday party: “Why do people have to be complete man-children about stuff all the time?”

Max Muncy hit three homers tonight. And the third one was a walk off. UNREAL

I'm moonscrolling

The Royals accidentally went full bisexual flag with their new city connect uniforms, and I'm here for it.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

XANDER BOGAERTS WALKS IT OFF IN SLAM DIEGO FASHION

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Run the Problem, Not the Update The builder PM’s approach to keeping executives engaged across complex, evolving work

updates don’t move complex work forward
they expand it
the real job is getting it to converge over time—with leadership involved

The Artemis II crew – Mission Specialist Christina Koch (top left), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (bottom left), Commander Reid Wiseman (bottom right), and Pilot Victor Glover (top right) – uses eclipse viewers, identical to what NASA produced for the 2023 annular eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse, to protect their eyes at key moments during the solar eclipse they experienced during their lunar flyby. This was the first use of eclipse glasses at the Moon to safely view a solar eclipse.

I’ve made my calls to my representatives, so it’s time to share these four beautiful nerds.
More here: images.nasa.gov

#ArtemisII

Yes, Congress is in recess.

Yes, they should probably come back now.

Yes, you can still call them while they're out.

Call a local office! We have those numbers for you @ 5calls.org 🔥📞🔥

the earth set. images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

oh, nothing, just me feeling the crushing weight of adulthood

The Artemis II crew just named one of the moon's craters after crew commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. A genuinely touching moment.

nutella free in space on artemis orion

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

Well now after the naming of Carroll Crater and the Artemis II crew passing around tissues, I’m a complete mess and how can anyone be expected to work today?

“Copy heart, copy bracelet” 🫶😭

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cult...

We obsess over writing code faster with AI, while PR queues, unclear requirements, and "what are we even building?" quietly eat all the time.

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I love the absolute clarity of this. We all need to ask ourselves each time whether we deem it worth accepting all this (and what makes us think it is). Or just not worth it at all.

Screenshot: Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA).

It should be amazing to watch!

it seems more important than ever to give real thought to the difference between “busy” and “productive”. it doesn’t matter how fast the buttons get pushed if nothing of value comes out of that flurry of activity

I’ve written about this a lot over the years
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DDoS'ing the human brain AI made us mass produce code at a scale we never could before. More code, more problems, same brain. Somehow I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.

Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time.

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A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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AI Cannot Replace Glue Work A colleague of mine left recently. She was one of the strongest connectors I've experienced in my career. The person who remembered what was discussed three meetings or five years ago. Who noticed when someone went quiet. Who made sure the right people talked to each other before things went sideways. She didn't have a fancy title for any of this.

In woodworking, glue strength depends on surface area. In teams, those surfaces are the moments where people connect. When we automate them away, we don't just remove work. We remove the thing that held the structure together.

Always going to be this one.

Cover page of The Learning Company Software Catalog from Fall of 1991 with a group of children who are waaaay too excited to be playing "Super Solvers: OutNumbered!"

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

But I can only estimate what I’ve done before, or can abstract from previous similar activities. Doing work breakdowns for very near horizons helps, but that develops over time. I can’t estimate past what’s visible to me now.

We’ve been doing Q2 planning, and folks want estimates on when projects can be completed while we don’t even know yet what our options might be, let alone what an appropriate solution is.
I’ve been trying to focus on what to do next that will move us forward, and only give estimates for that.

Quote: “Plan the learning. Not the solution. Not less planning. Different planning.

The question isn’t “How do we plan less?”, but “What are we actually trying to plan?”

Plan the learning: decide upfront what you need to understand, how you’ll find out, and what you’ll do with what you discover.”