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by danabrams 4y ago
Did this program earlier last year and it had enormous benefits. It’s really easy and you’ll be running decent distances in no time.
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by danabrams 4y ago
“Workers unwilling to work hard at types of places where bosses willing to go talk to a national newspaper about how lazy their employees are” is my preferred headline.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Didn’t read the article, but just going by the headline—London must have had a bank before 2017.
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by danabrams 4y ago
So if your org can get excellent at remote work, you have a distinct competitive advantage in hiring...
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by danabrams 4y ago
My fear is that if you’re being productive 20 hours and unproductive 20 hours a week and the work week is reduced, how do we know you won’t just end up being productive 10 hours and unproductive 20. That said, we should definitely be experi
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by danabrams 4y ago
We just had a baby this month, and I was shocked by how much time the medical staff was spending entering data into Epic. So much that they couldn’t actually fully concentrate on giving medical care. Everyone was very busy but it was very h
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by danabrams 4y ago
The SAFe promise is that you can make your enterprise agile without any of the difficult changes that senior and middle management have to make to truly make agile. Just pay scaled agile lots of money for your project managers to become cer
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by danabrams 4y ago
For B) Parkinson’s law predicts that useless bureaucracy, if left unchecked, will eat any gains in productivity.
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by danabrams 4y ago
For a) you can at least measure the ratio of managerial to non-managerial staff (which has become more substantially more heavily weighted towards management since 1983).
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by danabrams 4y ago
How feasible is this alternative theory: the growth of computing systems, while increasing productivity, has also allowed a substantial growth in bureaucracy.
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by danabrams 4y ago
TLDR President Reagan, as a younger man, ruined the lives of people who's crime was that he suspected they once believe something different from him (often when they were young and those different ideas were fashionable). And because h
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by danabrams 4y ago
Need to find a good reason to try fly.io. Seems like they’re doing some cool cool stuff.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Congrants on launching, but I have to be negative here: the idea that a standup is a time when everyone cycles through and gives a status update IS the problem with standup. This is like Jira for standups (and I don't mean that in a go
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by danabrams 4y ago
Phew! Found a new one just in time.
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by danabrams 4y ago
I'm a really big fan of Chad Fowler's reframing of legacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_y45he4-o TLDW: In most endeavors in life, legacy is a positive thing, a bequest or accomplishment that you leave behind
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by danabrams 4y ago
100% agree that it’s about dependence on other teams. That said, I’d much rather that we were communicating across a well defined api boundary, rather than a graphql api. You could, of course, very easily do this with an api layer in the mi
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by danabrams 4y ago
My therapist...
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by danabrams 4y ago
I think "what kind of an organization would let someone like that represent them?" and thank the gods for learning early to avoid that place.
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by danabrams 4y ago
One way to look at it is that taxes and fees like this are the cost of living in such a place. California is a very desirable place to live and to employ people, so they can charge through the nose, both in terms of taxes and bureaucracy, b
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by danabrams 4y ago
Personally, I don’t enjoy nearly as much as I did when I was 4.
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by danabrams 5y ago
The measure of how much value YOU generate for YOURSELF is how much you get paid. But generally, if you can generate a lot of value for the company, and demonstrate it, you will go far, and you will make much more money, especially if you c
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by danabrams 5y ago
Understanding the system of work in which you exist. Your company, your industry, your society. W. Edwards Deming said over and over again that the system in which an employee works puts a ceiling on how much output they can produce. But yo
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by danabrams 5y ago
This article is describing what happens when an institution starts to lose trust. There's a perception, even by participants in the system, that the system results in too many wrongful convictions and too many wrongful acquittals. That
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by danabrams 5y ago
The company I work for does it. It's nice.
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by danabrams 5y ago
It's an oldie, but The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox kept me from succumbing to stress during a particularly stressful period at work. It's a great business book in the form of an ok novel, and everyone who cares about man
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by danabrams 5y ago
I’m a consultant. This is my experience at most large companies, at least in legacy industries. Different large companies have different cultures, which mostly is about how much the employees like each other. But they’re all giant, kafkaesq
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by danabrams 5y ago
Generally, the mess will be created by the structure, processes and culture of the organization. Unless you created the mess by somehow changing the process, culture or structure of the org, not only is it not professional to leave, but you
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by danabrams 5y ago
Larger teams ship faster? My experience is that in most situations larger teams ship slower, precisely because of the collaboration costs you mention. There are ways to reduce the dependencies, but most organizations can't get there.
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by danabrams 6y ago
"You might have come across .mov while working with Apple softwares such as QuickTime, it was introduced in 1998 and uses a top secret compression algorithm. It is often quoted as the catalyst to Apple bringing feature length movie qua
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by danabrams 6y ago
> these companies rely heavily on masses of junior/inexperienced developers. So they figure a strong management layer is necessary to properly direct the project's goals. Development isn’t an assembly line process—and cannot po

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