Jason Schulz

Smart. Neurotic. Sometimes.
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[Declan Fay @declanf]

How come all those people who were “doing their own research” during Covid, now want to do absolutely no research on The Voice?
#Yes23 #voicereferendum

[Allen Jones @ajMSFT]

Following the news on MGM/Aria has brought back some old memories. Whenever I was running high-profile investigations, there was one prediction that was easy to make. Defenders, investigators, and analysts alike that are running for 14-16 hour-plus days is just not sustainable long-term.

While the MGM news didn’t become public until Sunday, the actual date which their event actually began isn’t public to my knowledge. What follows here are just some thoughts based on own my experience in old high-profile events.

Early in a given event, adrenaline and excitement is everywhere. Your pace quickens down a hallway, you don’t waste words in meetings, and everyone is on deck. Sadly though, there is often an inflection point about 9 or 10 days into these high-profile events. Within your teams, tensions may begin to flare, small mistakes start to happen, wild goose chases break out, and “event fatigue” will become obvious. The last thing you want is to be forced to resolve tiny squabbles or address negative team dynamics during the event.

I was fortunate – I had some really great teams over the years. Defenders naturally drop everything and put their entire lives on hold for these big events. We all want to be the firefighter and be first “on the firehose.” But you can’t stay there forever as it will take its toll on both professional and personal obligations.

I tried to combat this “event fatigue” by shaking things up a little, where possible. Resting any resources who are starting to exhibit signs of stress. Some may not appreciate you for this – they still want to be “first on the firehose.” You still must do it, even if it means slowing down the investigation a little. Once you understand enough about the boundaries and edges of the event, you also need to establish and demonstrate clear exit criteria if it’s not already obvious to your teams. Ensure that your resources know there is an end goal in sight.

Another job as a leader is to protect your people from the near-constant demand for answers from exec leadership. Establish expectations early on with your execs for timing of updates and stick to it. Thankfully, we had well-established programs and procedures for this.

I also liked to combat fatigue by occasionally interrupting my own all-hands meetings with something like a surprise that had little or nothing to do with the event. Shake things up a bit. One case I had piped in a big match from the World Cup. Wasn’t easy to do (tech-wise) back in those days. In the highest-profile cases I might bring in a senior exec leader to talk with and support the team directly. Just something that’s outside the norm and a little breather for the teams. The event will be memorable anyway. As a leader - why not try to add your own stamp to its legacy?

Defend your defenders. It matters in the long run.

[Rhys Muldoon @rhysam]

This is it. All of it. Doesn’t take long to read. Nor understand.
Read it 10 times. It doesn’t change.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

England is a country where soccer is their national sport. Millions play it, and they inject hundreds of millions of dollars into funding it. They’re obsessed with it.

Australia puts most sports funding into other games and although lots of kids play soccer, the game has nowhere near the attention, numbers of players or relentless support here it gets in Europe.

Our #Matildas were regularly playing to just a couple of hundred people until very recently. Their pay and conditions were close to pitiful until just a few short years ago. Many of them played for boy’s teams growing up, or had to move states or even continents just to get the game time they needed to excel. They did it HARD.

And as we’ve said a few days ago, they’ve also faced extraordinary misogyny, ridicule and barriers to success, just for being female.

Yet this women’s team have made history by getting to the final four in a tournament fought by nations where soccer is the reason a lot of them get up in the morning.

The Matildas haven’t failed: they’ve won. They’ve won our hearts and minds and changed sport - especially women’s sport - in this country forever.

They should all be so proud, and we should all be so proud of them.

Now it’s our collective responsibility to force our media to value women’s sport and our governments to fund it properly. We must hold their feet to the fire on behalf of all the little girls who deserve their chance to shine.

Thank you, Tillies.

You’re the fucking best, and you did us all proud. It’s been so much fun watching you play.

Good luck in your final #FIFAWomensWorldCup match.

#TilitsDone

[Howard Maclean @HowardFMaclean]

One of the most underrated problems in Australian elite discourse is that for generations, thinking about spatial regulation - the rules that govern what the physical fabric of our society (land use, zoning, etc), hasn't existed in elite training or discourse for generations.

[emily may @emilykmay]

Marriage for a long time was an economic choice that was made by necessity rather than desire.

Women in particular are now shifting to getting married if they want to, not because they have to.

It is interesting to see which subset of men feel threatened by that.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

#BREAKING: Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Hollywood Beach, Florida; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene ... more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops ...

[Jason Schulz @Jason_Schulz]

@davebloustien Category error Dave. Dad jokes aren’t meant to be good

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

happy mother's day to the guy who cheated on the mother of his first three children with the mother of his fourth child and cheated on her with the mother of his fifth child and cheated on her with a porn actress who he paid to shut the fuck up about it. republican family values

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

If you have not read the EU Council Legal Service opinion on the EU's #ChatControl proposal — their version of the #OnlineSafetyBill spyware clauses — you really should.

It is *damning* about EU/UK state anti-encryption proposals:

Extracts below; src: https://t.co/aYbfLqnKBo

[Dean Burnett (@drdeanburnett everywhere) @drdeanburnett]

I appreciate the optimism, guys, but I'm fairly confident it's going to be Charles.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

God. No one is advocating a trans genocide.

We are simply debating if we should deny trans people access to public schools, health care and the public commons until the population number is reduced to the point they can be ignored again.

Don’t be so dramatic.

[💧Sara @SaraJade_13]

Do you think the LNP will choose a burial or cremation ? 🤔

[Sean Kelly @mrseankelly]

A particularly excellent @murpharoo column today, partly on the role of media in getting politics to the awful place it’s in today

https://t.co/jurpHyBipL

[marquelawyers @marquelawyers]

Possibly, being the party that voters most readily associate with racism, environmental vandalism, corruption, misogyny and child sexual abuse isn't a long-term winning strategy.