Toots from 2025-09-04
A fun phase of Core Engineering work is seeing the long burn of independent and complementary wor…
A fun phase of Core Engineering work is seeing the long burn of independent and complementary work streams finally starting to converge. Weeks and months of vetting isolated subsystems paying off.
When the discordant jam band who’s been playing at different time signatures and keys lands in a deep pocket.
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There is no more performant solution than the elimination of the problem.
There is no more performant solution than the elimination of the problem.
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Curious to know the overall percentage of management that was responsible for teams of three or f…
Curious to know the overall percentage of management that was responsible for teams of three or fewer.
“The 35% reduction refers to the number of managers who oversee fewer than three people, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html
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“The most critical insight is that expecting immediate productivity gains without investing in …
“The most critical insight is that expecting immediate productivity gains without investing in learning infrastructure creates a paradox that undermines the very benefits organizations seek.”
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Organizations may eventually increase capacity after an adjustment period, but cognitive work doesn’t lend itself to perfect substitutability of production inputs.
“The idea that new technology can be introduced as a simple substitution of machines for people-preserving the system though improving the results-is a persistent oversimplification fallacy: the substitution myth. In actuality, adding or expanding the machine’s role changes the cooperative architecture and changes the human’s role “
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All metrics are misleading, some are useful. Measurement costs and leading/lagging distinction ar…
All metrics are misleading, some are useful. Measurement costs and leading/lagging distinction are important when picking practically useful metrics.
“Exotic Metrics make us feel smart, but if you really zoom out and are honest to yourself, it makes us act pretty stupid. It is highly contagious and chronic.
Let me explain, with a story.“
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exotic-metrics-parable-product-people-shreyas-doshi-8ghje
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“McIlroy’s review is a both an explanation and an exemplar of the Unix Way: small programs th…
“McIlroy’s review is a both an explanation and an exemplar of the Unix Way: small programs that do elementary tasks, but which are written so they can be combined in complex ways.”
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/