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by artsyca 7y ago
How about a new conversation pattern "I can understand and appreciate your perspective and opinion and would offer an alternative viewpoint" Once you learn how to exit vim you only need to look it up a few more times before you be
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Nothing wrong with an immediately steep learning curve it's only hard until it isn't
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It's a bit like the infamous email scam -- it requires a certain kind of victim in order to be successful These organizations thrive on a certain kind of candidate who is willing to do what they're told and not look too far past t
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by artsyca 7y ago
Just as any sufficiently complex software system devolves into a half baked implementation of LISP with an incomplete email implementation, so too does any sufficiently large organization become a pseudo police state with secretive protocol
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People don't understand dress analogies any more, it's reduced to absurdity along the lines of 'I don't wear suits so problem avoided'
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by artsyca 7y ago
I must be in the twilight zone -- could this thread be the watershed moment where sanity prevails in software?
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Key Performance Indicators aka when metrics turn into targets for jumped up managers
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes, once you realize the level of imposterism and mimcry going on in software you realize 'hey I can do this too' it's empowering in a twisted way -- I suggest doing it from a position of first principles and reinvention rat
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Organizations that blindly and naively follow their interpretation of the Toyota way also write crap and drive their people like a factory gone haywire Hey let's run our shop like a factory
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by artsyca 7y ago
How about Nintendo? They make some of the best most innovative software yet nobody mentions them and their hardware isn't too bad either hmmm
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As knowledge workers our role is to create knowledge and disseminate it we're researchers in many ways
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Automotive analogies are dead we're not building widgets and we're not assembly line workers enough already
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At least they're trying!
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This is exactly what I have been trying to say, intention matters, and yes you're right about being well put together Unfortunately day after day for a year say, it becomes quite apparent that some people dress without intention, inten
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...gets the popcorn
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In the real world the so called minions will each dress to mimic their so called leader and pretty soon you'll have a culture of undress at the expense of the client
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Sometimes it's a toxic humble brag, sometimes it's simple indifference and complacency, sometimes it's baked into an organization and in all cases it serves little useful propose to have casual Friday on a Monday
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Nothing worse than a bunch of no-necktie success mimics bluffing each other out in business sitting around sending false signals of importance through unbuttoned necklines
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Yes and for every Mark Benioff there are a million imitators; will the real Tony Soprano please stand up?
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Dressing down makes it easier for imposters and spies to infiltrate our ranks You'd wonder what would happen if the military went casual? It's ironic our corporations use the military C&C structure but not the military's
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I view everything in the world as a conversation essentially -- there are indeed 3 sides to every story but perhaps a little different than what the general consensus in my opinion There's what we say, what we mean, and what to intend
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I use this often enough but it's rather tedious and the diagrams don't look very polished unfortunately They suffer from formatting issues and are generally more trouble than anything to grapple with It's probably best for se
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I understand the sentiment and the intention and there are many layers of this onion to unwrap Formal wear unlocked some muscles your organization never even knew it had, and also some difficult conversations and investment dynamics which a
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I apply this thinking to formal business dress very often -- People in our industry are notorious for dressing down to where the art of dressing up is lost to the silicon sands of time Most anyone you ask from an entry level to a manager, d
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The truth relies on vulnerability and is often self incriminating; there are those who would use this information to further their own agendas at the expense of the transparently or naively honest
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That's because this article is not about screenshots, it's about the human condition with a dialectical analysis centered on the banal medium of the screenshot vis the existential angst we suffer as human beings now that the flood
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What's missing from this dialogue is the idea that Twitter is fundamentally a political organization, just as a soapbox is a political tool
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The worst is when an ASMR video lulls you into a sense of relaxation and vulnerability and a loud obnoxious ad suddenly obliterates you and sends your heart racing
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Where have you been all my life bro! Nobody gets it any more -- precisely the attitude needed in this industry; we need to turn the tables and take our craft back in-house
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Same here, I'd always pay off a little debt here and there and the busy-waiters would be circling my desk asking for status -- from the busy body product owners to the nitpicking directors at their weekly inquisitions, there's a w

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