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““The “Equity for Black People” and “LGBTQ+ Rights” sections are no longer available in…#
““The “Equity for Black People” and “LGBTQ+ Rights” sections are no longer available in the company’s policy, and any mention of the term “transgender” has been removed. The “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” now says that “inequitable treatment of anyone—including Black people, LGBTQ+ people, Asians, women, and others—is unacceptable.””
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“Different management approaches and advice tend to ignore that their applicability is highly d…#
“Different management approaches and advice tend to ignore that their applicability is highly dependent on those constraints and simplifications. That’s why you see so many management books that have “solved” the problem without the insight about the actual domain they have solved for.”
https://terrycrowley.medium.com/make-fewer-decisions-7634a8aec6c7
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“The decisions we make always carry risk because of the uncertainties: we just can’t predict …#
“The decisions we make always carry risk because of the uncertainties: we just can’t predict the future well enough to understand how our actions will reshape the risks. Remember that the next time people rush to address the risks exposed by the last major incident.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/01/12/the-danger-of-overreaction/
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“Docker. Docker is the insufficient cure to the software dependency disease.” <https://newsl…#
“Docker. Docker is the insufficient cure to the software dependency disease.”
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/notes-on-nix
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“Today, our stakeholders believe they will get radically different answers to basic questions o…#
“Today, our stakeholders believe they will get radically different answers to basic questions of capabilities and approach depending on who they ask.”
https://lethain.com/calm-product-eng-company/
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@thudfactor Sorry to hear. 💜#
@thudfactor Sorry to hear. 💜
Content Warning: Pet health
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“One often-overlooked aspect of reliability engineering is the correlation between failures. In…#
“One often-overlooked aspect of reliability engineering is the correlation between failures. In distributed systems, failures often cascade and cluster, violating the assumption of independent failure probabilities.”
https://addyosmani.com/blog/service-reliability/
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Yes. “Set a clear agenda: No agenda, no meeting. Period.” <https://thebrianfink.medium.com/…#
Yes.
“Set a clear agenda: No agenda, no meeting. Period.”
https://thebrianfink.medium.com/respect-your-time-or-no-one-else-will-8e10bd6fbbdb
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“It can be hard to put the intended purpose to one-side, to see what we currently can’t.” …#
“It can be hard to put the intended purpose to one-side, to see what we currently can’t.”
https://squiretothegiants.com/2025/01/24/mork-and-posiwid/
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“Many managers dream of big inspired moments of super high leverage decisions that make their w…#
“Many managers dream of big inspired moments of super high leverage decisions that make their whole year. Management is simply not that job. Management is the accumulation of daily nudges, assistance, enablement, help, and toil.”
https://staysaasy.com/saas/2025/01/24/management-mantras.html