Aspires to optimism, defaults to pragmatism. He/him.
Joined April 2007
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.@cultureshipname A virtuous flywheel of talent that’s running at enormous speed
Too many reasons to mention, but important amongst them are cultural drive, ambition, and a virtuous flywheel of talent that’s running at enormous speed
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.@christoomey Loved your thoughts on customerio on the latest BikeShed. My company is several years down that road, so I have Thoughts.
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Company idea (which I won't be building): Call For Backup. A consulting firm of backend devs & ops specialists, catering to teams that lean frontend. You've built a React/Next/etc app, and now your database is melting and you can't trace anything - call us!
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Book / course idea: Databases for JS Developers. You've done FE work, but now you need to store some data. Here's a little bit of relational theory, how to work with tables, etc. I've seen many folks struggle with this at work!
Now is the summer of our dig’tal content
Made glorious winter by this sun of Mac;
And all the fans that whirr’d upon our house
In the deep bottom of the desk buried.
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My cast list for any new Lord Of The Rings is also the cast list of Ted Lasso, a thread.
Let's start with an easy one: Aragorn. No fucking second breakfasts for any fucking hobbits or any other fucking muppets with this Aragorn.
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“maximize collaboration within teams, and minimize collaboration between teams.” rubick.com/how-to-build-silo…
If you build any kind of ops or developer tool, please NEVER show a time without a timezone. It's three characters, you can squeeze it in.
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Career milestone: receive dozens of cancel emails from test accounts, as a previous employer sunsets something you built.
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Underrated success metric: Are you proud of your own work? Your peers' work? Your team's work? Your department? Your company?
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As the world keeps looking for ways to address the Google/Facebook duopoly on online advertising, the root-cause solution is still right here in front of us: Ban targeted advertising! Make all that data hoarding and privacy exploitation unprofitable. wired.com/story/why-dont-we-…
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If you wanted a detailed appeal on why you should give to @ElectionScience, wait no longer! forum.effectivealtruism.org/… #EffectiveAltruism @Effect_Altruism