Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:
Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...
How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...
Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
“We can put everything we know together… but it doesn’t tell us anything, except that something is wrong… the clues we are getting don’t give us a solution; they only show us how far-reaching the wrongness is.”
— Time Out of Joint, PKD
does anyone else need to resist the urge bag their own groceries or is that just me
Claire Saffiz standing in front of a stove top with a pot full of some yellow soup is saying: it doesn't look like much but things are happening.
When your product manager calls on you during stand-up but you've been fucking around all sprint
😂
let me know the next time you’re in SD!
Honestly even internal org A/B human eval with a handful of people…. is a step up from what most orgs are doing 😭
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- Zero forethought: We will never think about the consequences of our actions.
- Zero accountability: We will never acknowledge those consequences when they inevitably arise.
- Zero reflection: We will never learn from our mistakes.
the batteries to all the remote controllers
also the thermostat
*you’re
pavel..
One time, while we were switching a big chunk of a Fortune 500 company over to Shortcut, someone there said to me "You realize that there are like 8 people here who will lose their jobs if we fully switch off of Jira, right? They're going to fight this like hell."
I still think about that a lot.
A new lecture by architect Christopher Alexander from 1995, now shown for the first time. 90 minutes of philosophy in action, as he wrestles with complex issues on a real building site, and with questions from an audience of mostly students.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wP...
B2B software lifehack: the first person to announce a self-service initiative will immediately be promoted to Senior Director
@303.bsky.social is your lead-in for design folks.
how this enormously lorge company works -
contractor budget: more than I can spend (because they're all bad)
AWS budget: unlimited
FTE budget: "fight this tiger for a dollar"
we interrupt your hellfeed to bring you some nature
*sponsored by muir woods
(If you can get even passably good at estimation and planning, you will be almost a literal deity walking among humans.)
not sure. @303.bsky.social has been keeping me busy so my social habit has taken a hit lately.
if it has, i hope the bloviating thot leedurs decided to stay behind so the rest of us can actually have a conversation
i feel seen
💯 building for yourself is a fallacy and somehow tech culture decided that was a good way to build products despite the decades of evidence saying otherwise
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/false-consensus/
probably the closest thing to royalty i’m going to get on this beautiful app @berduck.deepfates.com
hi justin! 👋
i felt this in my knees
and to expand upon that a bit further - shipping in startups is about trading off scope and time under conditions of irreducible uncertainty and complexity.
PMs in entrepreneurial environments need authority to make this trade-off (and be accountable for the outcomes of their decisions).
agreed. which is why i have my PMs do both. how much one needs to lean towards one or the other depends on a bunch company-specific variables:
• stage
• growth velocity (💰+🧍)
• codebase health
• vertical & customer
• eng location, composition, & level of talent
😢
