Project Lead @ubisoft; organizer, #DevOpsDaysMTL • math / linguistics / cogsci afficionado • views and opinions are mine • he/him @cornazano@hachyderm.io
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Michael McCliment retweeted
best i can tell, most mastodon servers are run on a purely volunteer basis, and when you raise this as an issue people say "it's fine, there's patreon, github sponsors, ko-fi, etc."
anyone with a background in open source economics can explain why that answer is not fine.
Michael McCliment retweeted
If your team hates retrospectives, you might want to think about if they are really working as a team or are more loosely coupled employees doing their own thing.
I have seen this so many times. Start with building the team rather than finding new ways of doing retros.
Michael McCliment retweeted
anyway, tech debt is a sacrifice decision: you are sacrificing a lower priority or value goal to achieve a higher priority or value goal. sacrifice decisions are ubiquitous in business.
Michael McCliment retweeted
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While a number of people in the replies are taking this literally, this is a joke.
Just a few days earlier, this same user claimed to have been laid off by a different company:
twitter.com/anothercohen/s…
Michael McCliment retweeted
I wish Twitter had a retract tweet option, which would hide it by default but could still be viewed with a click. I generally think of deleting tweets out of a conversation as dishonest, but if I reconsider something, I don’t want to just leave it alone.
Michael McCliment retweeted
It's an interesting point, one of the reasons he's doing so poorly is that it's *not* rocket science. He failed to recognize Twitter was never a STEM problem, it was about how people interact- and STEM bros always underestimate the humanities.
Michael McCliment retweeted
“The world needs more common sense”
=>
“More people should have the same assumptions and biases I have”
Michael McCliment retweeted
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Check Mark was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, a master Check Mark was forged in secret to control all others. And into this Check Mark he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
Michael McCliment retweeted
Really, the mass impersonation of Musk by verified accounts was a magnificent satirical art project that achieved its purpose: demonstrating Musk's hypocrisy, the impossibility of speech absolutism, *and* the utter foolishness of the Twitter Blue revamp.
Michael McCliment retweeted
Layoffs are a psychological tool, not an economic one. They do not improve profits or productivity. They do not retain high performers.
What they do is intimidate workers who might otherwise have pushed for better working conditions.
ALT Research by Magnus Sverke and Johnny Hellgren of Stockholm University and Katharina Näswall of the University of Canterbury found that after a layoff, survivors experienced a 41% decline in job satisfaction, a 36% decline in organizational commitment, and a 20% decline in job performance. Moreover, high performers may simply leave.
Michael McCliment retweeted
Nat, no.
1) this feature is no “great new thing. Let’s not pretend it is
2) there’s a huge difference between working hard because you’re personally motivated by the mission vs a culture of fear
3) you know how many people do their best work when they’re burnt out? None.
Michael McCliment retweeted
All the crises we face are interconnected. The benefit of Twitter is that experts on different subjects could talk to each other and learn from each other in a public forum — especially on topics that the mainstream media avoids, and especially as institutions fail the people.
Michael McCliment retweeted
I think I can confidently say that the entire tech community stands with the Twitter engineers — all of them.
We love you. None of this is your fault. We’re going to get you settled somewhere else. It’s going to be OK. ❤️
Michael McCliment retweeted
Yo @twitter employees:
Thank you for all these years of hard work. Because of you, I have gotten my last 3 jobs and made some of my best friends in the world.
I’m here to refer you for any job that I’m able. Here is an Accessibility PM job we have open:
careers.microsoft.com/i/us/e…
Michael McCliment retweeted
anyway, periodic reminder that doing the wrong thing right makes you wronger
Michael McCliment retweeted
The "#DevOps is Dead" content marketing strategy is an exploitative attack on over decade of progress on inclusivity, cultures of trust and safety, better cooperation. I think it is shameful and the wrong way to promote #platformengineering
Michael McCliment retweeted
To be clear: When I see sponsored content that proclaims "DevOps is Dead" what I see a deliberate attack on the people pushing for inclusivity, cultures of trust and safety, better cooperation, and the tools that they build to do that
Michael McCliment retweeted
The #DevOps movement began and remains an inclusive movement about working together better in teams, building cultures of trust and safety, aligning better in organizations, and creating tools that make that happen.