Toots from 2023-03-17
“Working with many healthcare leaders, I have observed that notwithstanding recent developments i…
“Working with many healthcare leaders, I have observed that notwithstanding recent developments in the field, the prevailing view of organizations is still that of the organization-as-machine, a control-oriented manager-centered approach dating back to Frederick Taylor more than a century ago. In this paper, we will explore how inadequate this mechanical model is for what is a fundamentally social process; it can actually impede change.”
https://www.acgme.org/globalassets/PDFs/Symposium/Suchman_Organizations-as-Machines.pdf
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“Sorry, I don’t know how to explain it better than that. What I can do instead is talk about so…
“Sorry, I don’t know how to explain it better than that. What I can do instead is talk about some systems design problems and archetypes that repeat, over and over, across multiple fields. If you can recognize these archetypes, and handle them before they kill your project, you’re on your way to being a systems designer.”
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227
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“In all seriousness, this is a huge reason that spending three weeks paying down tech debt, car…
“In all seriousness, this is a huge reason that spending three weeks paying down tech debt, carte blanche, often does little or nothing for the team’s velocity after those weeks have ended.”
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/27/stop-saying-technical-debt/
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“Tools and resources that are designed to help you during an incident or just during a normal d…
“Tools and resources that are designed to help you during an incident or just during a normal day can cause their own problems. On the other hand, those things that are unexpected can sometimes help you as well.”
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“One big problem with all of this is that it makes building and operating Serverless applicatio…
“One big problem with all of this is that it makes building and operating Serverless applications ever more complicated. The larger the surface area of techniques that an engineer can use, the more decisions they need to make.“
https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2023-03-15_serverless-2023