Toots from 2024-11-27#
Current mood: ``A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even kn…#
Current mood: ``A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable''
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“One, a belief that the war could be fought and won strategically with technology, when the bat…#
“One, a belief that the war could be fought and won strategically with technology, when the battle was for hearts and minds on the ground.”
— Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Fail and Others Succeed by Greg Mills
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Rules of the game:
Grab the nearest book.
Turn to page 42
Find the 2nd sentence
Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
Don’t look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
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“Experience shows that the outcome is accompanied by an ongoing tension between descriptive sev…#
“Experience shows that the outcome is accompanied by an ongoing tension between descriptive severity (based on the fuzzy impact and scope), prescriptive severity (what is the response we think we need), mixed in with time pressure, incomplete information, and objectives.”
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/against-incident-severities-favor-incident-types
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“Aspirations are not strategy. Goals and OKRs are not strategy. Financial projections and forec…#
“Aspirations are not strategy. Goals and OKRs are not strategy. Financial projections and forecasts are not strategy. SWOT analyses and five forces analyses are not strategy. Driving results is not strategy. Deciding to be a butcher, baker, or candlestick maker is not strategy.”
https://kellblog.com/2024/05/12/strategy-as-a-series-of-beliefs/
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“This is Learning in The Forest. People take on tasks that will help them learn the most. Whate…#
“This is Learning in The Forest. People take on tasks that will help them learn the most. Whatever the project gives up in this week’s productivity will be more than made up later…”
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/learning-in-the-forest
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“The solution here is obvious, always make sure you agree on the problem and general solution, …#
“The solution here is obvious, always make sure you agree on the problem and general solution, and provide evidence the team is working well.”
https://lethain.com/how-to-get-more-headcount/
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“The TAPPs framework - named for trust, autonomy, purpose, and psychological safety - represent…#
“The TAPPs framework - named for trust, autonomy, purpose, and psychological safety - represents the top four social drivers of performance in software engineering teams.”
https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-69-what-are-top-social-drivers
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“How useful is “This is not best practice?” in this context? I think it’s not very useful unles…#
“How useful is “This is not best practice?” in this context? I think it’s not very useful unless you also explain why the practice exists, and why in this context it would not be wise to do it. That’s much more difficult to do, but that’s how you teach.”
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/question-best-practices/
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“In regards to AI in particular, as some of these metrics contradict the industry narrative abo…#
“In regards to AI in particular, as some of these metrics contradict the industry narrative about the technology, I revisit the theory of constraints and hypothesize that writing code isn’t the bottleneck to deploying reliable applications.”
https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/11/26/dora2024/