Toots from 2024-05-06#
Own the problem, not the solution.#
Own the problem, not the solution.
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I’ve got a notion I don’t really enjoy Notion.#
I’ve got a notion I don’t really enjoy Notion.
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“Technical Coherence is a theory and a structure to answer these questions about the whole syst…#
“Technical Coherence is a theory and a structure to answer these questions about the whole system full of people and software and data.
We start from the outside and work our way in, from the purpose of the product into a technical structure.”
https://jackdanger.com/technical-coherence/
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“Even if we can’t define integration test, we still have recognize them. There are tests that a…#
“Even if we can’t define integration test, we still have recognize them. There are tests that are bigger than our “unit tests” and smaller than an end-to-end test, and people have strong opinions about writing more or less of them.”
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/integration-tests-are-just-vibes/
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I can think of one explanation and it reinforces my personal faith that an individual will contin…#
I can think of one explanation and it reinforces my personal faith that an individual will continue to make the wrong decisions.
“Many possible explanations have been advanced to explain this behavior, and most of them don’t increase my personal faith that Musk will make the right decisions with Tesla.”
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“It’s inevitable to have some number of load-bearing employees at any given point, but it’s…#
“It’s inevitable to have some number of load-bearing employees at any given point, but it’s a bad sign if the identities of load-bearing employees remain the same over time. A healthy organization rotates load–bearing-ness across different employees over time rather than reinforcing the dependency.”
https://lethain.com/load-bearing-career-minded-act-two-rationales/
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“So for people paying for programmers, thinking about cognitive load is important. If you want …#
“So for people paying for programmers, thinking about cognitive load is important. If you want quality results, you need to keep the cognitive load on the team within their capacity.”
https://mattwynne.net/cognitive-load-for-knowledge-work
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Dystopian sci fi is supposed to be a warning, not a goal. “At the end of the hourlong flight, …#
Dystopian sci fi is supposed to be a warning, not a goal.
“At the end of the hourlong flight, Kendall climbed out of the cockpit grinning. He said he’d seen enough during his flight that he’d trust this still-learning AI with the ability to decide whether or not to launch weapons in war.”