@ratkins @alpha Anyway my current take is that "doing XP" is mostly orthogonal to business success and that's fine, we should do it anyway.

"Making things well" is inherently valuable and XP lets us make things well without trading off time.

@ratkins @alpha I got kind of hung up on figuring out how much the VMware acquisition was just a direct result of a single analyst and the way he framed a single guidance cut.

Like it is *possible* that the acquisition mostly happened because of this one guy, which would be incredible if true, but I need to do more research, and what his up to now is too good to publish the rest of it without including that detail.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/21/tesla-is-the-most-undervalued-ai-play-in-the-market-says-wedbushs-dan-ives.html

@ratkins @alpha Funnily enough this post was a replacement for a longer and weirder post about how people reason about software methodology based on equity price movements, which produces all kinds of weird results because of how many other factors there are in equity prices.

I think it's really helpful to think of the things that you personally can do and have control over. Especially on social media it can be easy to think of alternately worrying about the state of the world, and imagining solutions that you hope other people implement, as being things that can influence the real world. But they don't.

Good post by @nat. The term I’ve heard for this is “outcome bias” (judging decisions based on knowing the outcome instead of judging them based on the information people had at the time).

https://www.simplermachines.com/dont-be-results-oriented/

@alpha This is great, thanks.

@ratkins Interesting! What did you get from your manager? What was your experience level when you joined?

@christa @alpha Interesting! What did you get from your manager? What was your experience level when you joined?

@CStamp Just made an appointment, there's a donation center basically around the corner. Thanks for the nudge.

@dev @dan @redmp yeah that's basically the standard for "convenient via BART" from the east bay

many nice foods there! Robin, Smuggler's Cove, Dumpling Home

@lori I would play a Cozy Looter Shooter

@ratkins built-in terminal doesn't display gifs

I’ve been told I should write more. So, I am.

Join me over at https://www.fullstacksyntax.com

I’m focusing on building fluency in people+tech, sharing what I know about that, and exploring what I don’t.

@gsuberland I'm just... I'm imagining the person who finds *this picture specifically* extremely hot

Definitely miss and love the Adobe that made this installer splash screen.

@dan

Happy International Pallas Cat Day to all who celebrate!

@kottke tbh I love this description

Fascinated by this “WTF Notebook” post because 1) it’s a really good listening/note-taking idea for new team members 2) applied for weirdly Machiavellian ends, e.g. wanting ppl to think they're helpful rather than wanting to be helpful. https://www.simplermachines.com/why-you-need-a-wtf-notebook/

@jacques There should be a corporate death penalty for stuff like this. Fuck up security badly enough and the whole thing gets cut up and sold for parts.