ruh-roh

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by ruh-roh 3y ago
Yes - that mental picture of a divorced dad watching old family photos come to life, while sitting alone on his couch - is just gutting. Like a literal punch in the gut. But having said that, is "loneliness" the correct (or only)
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by ruh-roh 3y ago
I joined a company last year that has a handful of legacy products, and we successfully moved one of them to a CD model a few months ago. It's hilarious to sit back and watch every other team have the same monthly loop of big change -&
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by ruh-roh 3y ago
I used to travel ...a lot... Minimum twice a week, usually 4+. As an engineer (and process consultant), I spent countless hours sitting at airport gates looking for any optimization I could find, mostly focusing on wasteful and (seemingly e
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
The "once they start trying to change things" aspect is where I'm most keen to watch. Surely we have all been involved with large-to-small systems where we were curious how well/long they would stand up on their own with
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
This is interesting - I have been passively monitoring LinkedIn and a few others for senior engineering management roles for the last year or so (VPE, DoE). I am not really looking, I have only pursued a couple of them, but my feed/inb
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Is there a term for the phenomenon where a supremely powerful person can comment on some event that may happen, perhaps innocently, and the fact they said it makes it more likely to happen ? In many ways, the health of an economy is a stat
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Comment on your edit: I don't disagree on the potential for a worse technique or tech on either side, but isn't there also potential for the opposite? As in, exposure to a technology/architecture/process at Company B tha
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
While I generally agree about the annoyance with UI changes, and how that grinds on people, I hope we don't just handwave over the "CD for bug fixes is fine" bits. It varies product-to-product obviously, but I'd guess th
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
I am genuinely interested in this, please excuse my naivety. My expectation would be that new Product work would, at some high-ish level, be sanctioned by company leadership. Or you wouldn't be spending weeks/months/years on
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
On a whim I picked up The Metaverse , Matthew Ball's book released last week (7/19). I am only about 1/3 of the way through it, so I can't recommend it yet, but I have two main takeaways so far... 1. If you can get thro
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
> If we can't make the cars just as smart as an alert and capable driver, then maybe we need to meet halfway and make the roads a littler "dumber" (simpler) to accommodate the robots. This aspect of FSD has always fascinat
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Last Spring (21) when we thought the pandemic was subsiding, we started optional in-office days. I went in one day, stopped by the kitchen, and bumped into a peer I had not seen in a year. Not even on Zoom. Our teams had worked together on
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
> Don't project into the future. What is now is not indicative of the future. This is fantastic. Nobody cares that the neighbor kid started walking at 8 months while yours hasn't yet. It doesn't mean anything. You'll
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Is it really not thriving? Surely it's relative vs SF/NYC, but when I got here in the 90s, it was all just banking & insurance. Also advertising, but very little tech there. It was super frustrating at the time, but the last d
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
I am not going to wade into the crime chatter all over this thread, people have their own stories and barometers on that stuff. But I cannot let Bean anecdotes slide without an alternate take. We take our kids (two under 10) down to the Bea
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Oh 100%, this drives my consultanty-productivity-efficiency brain mad. I get doing this so people can check that they are paying for what they ordered, but mistakes/inaccuracies are exceptions. The vast majority of restaurant payments
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
I made a rule with my phone - only read content that was created > 1 year ago. This immediately rules out Facebook, Twitter, and (usually) WashPost/NYT. I am left with academic papers and books. (Podcasts and audiobooks are ok.) Som
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
Using silence strategically is a superpower. Best leader I ever worked with had a "7 second silence" rule. Just don't say anything for 7 seconds. Requesting input on a topic/idea in a meeting? Wait in silence for 7 secon
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
I am probably 95% in line with this, SAFe is mostly terrible, but there are some nuggets in there that I think are good. Mostly around the cadence and checkpoints on progress in delivery. (Yes, we can argue whether some of these things orig
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
More than two years into this, "*returning* to the office" is incorrect framing in a lot of cases. I have been hired via Zoom to companies out of state TWICE in this period, each headquartered more than 1k miles away. I had/h
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
I don't feel that the realities of rent/utilities/snacks get nearly enough attention in conversations like this. If you have more than a handful of employees with office space in a major metro area, rent is easily equal to (o
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
"Number of engineers" has become another vanity metric in the VC ecosystem and it needs some pushback. I have viewed of a ton of tech leadership job postings in the last year+, and almost all of them have a requirement/bullet
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
This is good advice for multiple reasons. One I haven't seen mentioned yet - When Product is accountable & responsible for testing the outputs, they will understand the effort required and can therefore prioritize investment in tes
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
When I had a train commute in the before-times, the one thing I really leaned into was the train ride home. It was about 30 minutes. I used that time in a variety of ways - reading, podcasts, napping, meditating, drinking-a-beer. I let my m
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by ruh-roh 4y ago
In a weird way - this kind of thing has pushed me towards companies that aren't anywhere near my current location, even/especially international. It makes the conversation super clear, recruiters & hiring managers can't d
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by ruh-roh 5y ago
My father has given me a version of the same advice in strange, disruptive, crazy economic times over the years: "At a certain level, the economy is just a collective state of mind. You can contribute to it, be a slave to it, or take a
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by ruh-roh 5y ago
When I took a full remote position late last year, I also invested in a cheap treadmill for my home office, plus a laptop attachment. I get on it first thing every day, and do my normal inbox processing, generally at a pretty slow pace. Res
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by ruh-roh 5y ago
Early in my career I just did the standard '2 weeks' thing, but as I progressed I extended to 4 (and in one case I gave 6). In my mind, I thought it was respectful to the company, helped soften the blow on finding a replacement, g
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by ruh-roh 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by "regardless of timezone". I was lucky to be in a foreign country during an Olympics (Australia). They had no delusions of grandeur (except maybe in swimming). They interviewed winners regardless of countr
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by ruh-roh 5y ago
Starting new at a startup-with-traction several years ago, I had reason to check out the feature flag configs for my first feature. It was hilarious. - There were hundreds of them, some of them going back to the garage days, multiple years

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