This Holocaust remembrance day, I'd love to pose the question:
Do you or your friends work for a tech company that enabled a modern genocide? Or do you work for a company that has the potential to enable one?
If so, what are you doing about it?
The first step to doing the work is defining what the work is.
Station Eleven is superb. Human and beautiful, despite the apocalyptic setting. Artfully put together, intricately written, and meticulously acted.
Disappointingly, I’ve been overloading my M1 MacBook Pro. If I don’t restart it every few days at least, it just hangs. I decided to settle for 8GB RAM; never again.
I haven’t had a good mental health week, to say the least. Recharging and hibernating. I’ll bounce back.
Are you doing the work, or are you putting on a performance of doing the work?
Laws against teaching the history of race in America are not just abhorrent, they're evil.
Realizing that my superpower is writing, and my un-superpower is showing up well in the moment in meetings, I need to spend more time reflecting and writing my thoughts down about how to progress.
What decisions would you make differently if you thought we were in the foothills of the pandemic - with the worst still to come, maybe for decades?
Who is the best wartime engineering lead of a small to medium sized startup you know?
Prime Minister mishandles deadly pandemic, resulting in the excess death of many thousands: basically crickets
Prime Minister breaks a rule about having parties: absolute armageddon
Whatever it takes for him to go, I guess
It's been years since I last visited my hometown. I wonder what's changed? Last time I visited London (not my hometown, but kind of down the road) I was surprised by lots of new buildings that made it look like a science fiction version of itself. Time is weird.
I've asked elsewhere but I'll ask here too: if you've used an outsourced IT firm (to help with provisioning, onboarding, offboarding, and IT support), who did you pick? Would you recommend them? Thanks!
I’m not saying coffee is my whole personality in a fun way; I’m saying it in a cordyceps way.
Having a nice cup of tea in the sky like I'm some kind of Beatle or something.
Tired: trying to free the sum total of human knowledge and amplify diverse voices in the service of peace and understanding
Wired: making money without all those pesky regulations
Whether it’s accepted by the political center yet or not, the “squad” is likely the future of American politics. I’m absolutely in their corner, and cannot wait.
Advice for younger engineers, or anyone joining a company: if they don’t care about DEI, or try and throw you some “we’re all diverse” bullshit, they’re not worth working for.
Very American thing I've started noticing for the first time: people doing remote meetings WHILE THEY HAVE COVID. Go rest! Sleep! Get better! Take care of yourselves!
It's going to be a losing battle, but I'm absolutely determined to not get covid.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but just because every single thing in your life is not going well or to plan right now, it doesn’t mean you’re defective or a bad person.
(It’s me. Hi. I need to hear this.)
I'm increasingly convinced that an iterated form of true co-operatives will be a huge part of the future. Lots of good work on this has been done already - and there will need to be more. A world where we share equity while building the future is possible.
All these guys saying “Bitcoin fixes this”: you’re thinking of coffee. Coffee fixes this.
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