“To be provocative: No one ever fired someone too soon.”
tags: management
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Founder Stories: Kate Heddleston of Opsolutely
Someone was like, “Should the women in engineering, like, form a guild?,” and I was like, “Yeah. As long as we can have, like, a monopoly on baking and space-time travel, I’m in.” People were like, “What are you talking about?” I’m like, “I don’t know. I just make Dune references.”
tags: ycombinator
I’m Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
“I truly believe we are at an unprecedented time in American history, in uncharted territory. I have benefited from democracy passively, without trying at all, for 46 years. I now understand that the next four years is perhaps the most important time to be an activist in the United States since the civil rights movement. I am ready to do the work.”
tags: usa
America, America – BLARB
“That Trump was ever even taken seriously as a candidate for President of the United States (he was understandably viewed as a carnival freak-show by his adversaries and the media, each of whom hoped to fleece the suckers that gathered while the circus was in town — this too abetted his improbable rise), suggests that we have exposed the limits of our ability to competently govern ourselves.”
tags: usa
The candy diet
“The economics seem to be that the only way to make a living is to reach a lot of people and the only way to reach a lot of people is to race to the bottom, seek out quick clicks, make it easy to swallow, reinforce existing beliefs, keep it short, make it sort of fun, or prurient, or urgent, and most of all, dumb it down.”
tags: culture
A Time for Refusal – The New York Times
“Evil settles into everyday life when people are unable or unwilling to recognize it. It makes its home among us when we are keen to minimize it or describe it as something else. This is not a process that began a week or month or year ago. It did not begin with drone assassinations, or with the war on Iraq. Evil has always been here. But now it has taken on a totalitarian tone.”
tags: politics
The Human Cost of Tech Debt
“For a manager, a code base high in technical debt means that feature delivery slows to a crawl, which creates a lot of frustration and awkward moments in conversation about business capability. For a developer, this frustration is even more acute. Nobody likes working with a significant handicap and being unproductive day after day, and that is exactly what this sort of codebase means for developers.”
tags: programming
The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’ — Nelson Cash
“The Stranger Things title sequence is pure, unadulterated typographic porn.”
tags: design
Stick a Fork in Ethereum
“I previously said that I had more sympathy for ETH investors than the DAO tokenholders who enabled this mess. But now I feel bad for the DAO creators too. A happenstance windfall can make the shittiest piece of shit believe they’re the paradigm of meritocracy. Just look at Donald Trump.”
tags: thedao
10x or not: You’ve got to do things right — DevOps and Agile Tales
“This makes me think, isn’t it better to have existing people do well, and probably become 2x or 3x. If you have a 5 member team, instead of depending on a 10x person to come and fix all your worries, if you could make your current team 2x or 3x, you already have an advantage! But how do you do that?”
tags: developers
10x or not: You’ve got to do things right — DevOps and Agile Tales