Letting people go while they’re on maternity or paternity leave us not cool.
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| there's no limitation on what you're allowed to learn.
This is becoming increasingly less true in some places around the US.
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Roller Coaster Tycoon, single person, written almost entirely in assembly according to legend. https://www.pcgamesn.com/rollercoaster-tycoon/code-chris-saw...
You’ve verbalized more about data science than most executives ever will.
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Yeah, but if you don’t do it right it takes a long time (relative to the 30s-1m if you do it right) and you’ll have a mess on you’re hands… or floor… afterwards.
I look at the pithy little bits in this quote as being standins for the larger acts that they’re part of, and wouldn’t read too much into it.
Similar, less included in the distribution. Doom to me generally feels a little more opinionated but easier to reason about.
They’re both quite good at what they do, and they do similar things.
| the defiant antihero of the Easter story
That feels like quite a stretch. Pilate is an important figure in the story, but antihero? He largely is the state actor “just trying to keep the peace” and giving in to the religious leaders to make that happen.
Seems more like a real politik type of character of his day than anything to my memory. Keep the tax revenue flowing, don’t require more legions to be brought in, keep your governorship.
Nothing “happened” it’s still growing and a great language. It’s just past the point where mavens are evangelizing it because it’s not new to the mavens anymore.
It’s a fantastic set of tools, and a great community. The real trick is that the organizations that you find using it, especially well established ones, are going to pay well and be looking to invest heavily in their engineering teams.
Coasting is the norm for most people once they get past the “up or out” part of their career. There’s a lot of variance in how long that period lasts depending on the line of work, but after that for every 10 people you’ll have:
2 who work hard and are net additions
2 who actively work against things to maintain whatever they have
6 who are just content to be there, do what they need to do to continue to get paid and lean towards whichever of the above groups make their life easier at any given time.
| It's as if the professor here thinks their class is the only one that matters.
That tracks fairly well with most every class I remember.
| Professionally, my task is complete when it meets the needs of the client and I get paid. With this class, tasks are never complete. There's always more revising to do, and you never know when to stop.
Sadly that maps pretty well with client work as well. The person getting the work done always thinks it’s the most important thing you’re doing because it is for them.
There are few words that have lost as much meaning and impact in the last decade than “mentor”.
An assigned mentor isn’t one. They’re either a boss, a peer, or an onboarding helper.
Mentorship is deeper, lasts longer than just being at one job, and isn’t something that everyone is going to get. In my experience they’re very rare, and rarely is the word mentor used in relation to it, expect in hindsight.
100%
That is why it is important that updates be framed in terms of outcomes for the business/customer/etc and that they be falsifiable.
It is challenging. I’ve been part of a project that took a product from idea to brick and mortar consumer retail in about 18 months and it was a lot.
You’ve got to become an ad-hoc subject matter expert in many different areas, or be able to find and hire those people. This is everything from electrical, RF, design for manufacturing, mold design, packaging, logistics etc.
In my experience finding a manufacturing partner is a challenge, big ones are usually not interested in a low volume product taking up their assembly line space. They’ll usually want some contractual guarantees about the number of units and it’s going to make your eyes bulge the first time you see it.
Call a lot of people, ask a lot of questions, and get introductions from every possible person you can. A lot of manufacturing is old school business and relies on past experience and transitive trust to start a relationship.
I really loved the challenge, but this kind of thing is not something to step into lightly.
There were several of those, but DwarfTherapist is probably what you’re thinking of. It’s basically required to run a fortress at scale.
Reminds me of Nobel Prize winning research on the cost of lighting that is covered by a BBC podcast here, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38650976, and the original paper here, https://lucept.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/william-nordhaus-...
Why the falling cost of light matters
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