Yeah that's fair

Whether it’s Kristi Noem getting Mar A Lago face or it’s Bryon Noem wearing enormous fake breasts, the Noems have emerged as unexpected practitioners of gender affirming interventions.

fist my bump

Is this the same empty chair we set aside at the dining table

amaze amaze amaze

This is tomorrow, and I am super-psyched 🤗

I really hope he doesn't incite a mob or anything if he doesn't get what he wants

wait which rush song, I don't know rush

actually it wouldn't it'd be too glib and it would go over everyone's heads

someone should do that, it'd go down a treat at a mckinsey conference

oh shit is this going to turn into a sort of wear sunscreen song for "tech is difficult"

people don't like making hard decisions, but remember, avoiding a decision or not making a decision *is a decision*

think about the dependency graph of the human body which we don't even really know yet and the discovery eg about the gut microbiome and how it affects the brain and nervous system, then think genuinely about bureaucratic systems that have evolved over decades + their techno-policy architecture

a trick is to be able to say that of this particular problem, 90% is absolutely standard and we can deal with it in an established way without needing to set any new policy. what we need to concentrate on *in this domain* is the 10% of which we have domain knowledge. trust the 90% + know what 90%.

but you cannot and will not be able to do everything for everyone so as much as you can, you should telegraph intent. not everyone can get what they want at once, but they might get it if you work on one thing at a time. will you actually get to those things later? that's a promise to fulfill.

caring about people is another way of saying you're sweating the details, because details only matter in relation to and to people, and when you get to detail details, those are going to matter to a small small small number of people. but sweating them is both a signal and a discipline.

if you're not part of the simple solution then you're extraneous and can be Dealt With

caring about people is spending resources (time, effort, money) on those people and prioritizing them which means not spending time, effort, money on something else that might seem "more important", a trick is that caring about a small cohort may actually as a result directly benefit a larger cohort

think about whether a particular externality actually affects an individual's ability to achieve their desired outcome and affects their agency, and then realize that your ability or desire to deal with ("fix") that ("the part of the problem") is essentially whether you care about those people

you can't easily see externalities but the thing is, externalities will always affect someone and it turns out that people tend to have quite strong opinions about certain things that affect them

this is why most people will say the answer to something is easy, because so far they've only seen the 90% of the easy bit of that problem and have not spent years discovering the 10% of mind-numbingly difficult shit that actually involves making a human decision about how you want to resolve it

for clarity's sake I mean: most problems are not difficult problems/start out as not difficult, until you get to the 10% of that problem that is really really difficult

legacy modernization is really difficult even in the most sophisticated and successful engineering + design practice we've ever encountered which is why you still have an appendix

most problems are not difficult problems until you get to the 10% of them that are really really difficult

agile -> the ability to make mistakes faster
agentic engineering -> the ability to make mistakes faster

none of these say make any guarantees at all about what you do in response to making mistakes

The golden escalator cinched it for me

There will definitely be graffiti in places that says FUCK TRUMP

It's legit the area that will have recorded holograms with lore about the excesses of the period that led to humanity's downfall.

Trump's presidential library is totally environmental storytelling in my post-apocalyptic dystopian open world action adventure game.

Like I said, proud that People, Not Platforms was everywhere this #AtmosphereConf. It's a not-so-subtle hat-tip to @masnick.com's Protocols, Not Platforms since protocols have hit the main stage.

But the overuse means people build on it with their own meaning. Just wanted to make my version clear.