Toots from 2025-03-26
I’m not very interested in whether people evasively respond to “new tough questions”. I am extr…
I’m not very interested in whether people evasively respond to “new tough questions”. I am extremely interested when people will start facing “new tough consequences".
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“Reducing operations costs and improving service reliability for a high scale internet service st…
“Reducing operations costs and improving service reliability for a high scale internet service starts with writing the service to be operations-friendly. "
https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/hamilton.pdf
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Agree. It’s an insightful and honest paper about how to represent intrinsically unpredictable w…
Agree. It’s an insightful and honest paper about how to represent intrinsically unpredictable work. Remarkable how much nuance has been lost or denied since the 1950s.
“Anyway, you should absolutely go read Program Evaluation Research Task (PERT) Summary Report - Phase 1, it’s eye opening how forward looking the project was, and how much we’ve lost, and then poorly reinvented, since then.”
https://bitworking.org/news/2025/03/applying-the-fundamental-axioms-to-reduce-uncertainty/
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“The dominant belief is that you have two camps: the process camp and the high accountability, …
“The dominant belief is that you have two camps: the process camp and the high accountability, integrity, and agency camp. So, the idea of somehow artfully designing an OS—thinking about behaviors, systems, and the environment—is hard even to discuss.”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-347-why-dont-our-leaders-care