Thought Stream — week of 30 Nov 2020
Qualifiers make a Tweet less pithy. Hence, many tweets come across as crass and unpolished.
Do not mistake affability with competence.
Tips and tricks gained from experience to scale your tech stack really, really fast.
https://abhyrama.com/2020/12/02/blitzscaling/
When you read a success story, it looks linear—one thing leads to another.
In real life, it would have played out parallelly—multiple things happening at the same time.
This is why insiders have a vividly different view than outsiders of success stories.
Experienced engineer in a young team.
@PDLComics: not scared
“Man in the middle”—is a common communication (anti?)pattern in companies.
You relay messages from one to the other without adding any value.
You are an adult the day you start seeing the world in shades of grey instead of black and white.
Protesting does not make you a victim.
Supporting a protest does not make you a sympathetic person.
The secret to getting remote work right is not trying to model it on how work used to get done in the office.
A complete re-think is needed.