Steven Fox

Product person, Business Process Transformation specialist, Scuba Diver. Working on IoT connectivity with @CubicTelecom

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@Nigelrefowens 2 quick questions:
1. What law did porter get yellow carded for? 19.19? It seems strange for a player going backwards to be pinged for a 'pushing' offence
2. What law is used to penalize early engagement? 19.37a?

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

I love taking apart/fixing stuff. This week it was our @Waterdrop_USA counter top filter. The electronic tap below was stuck closed

Interestingly, the pump still worked & built up enough pressure to blow an o-ring on the filter.

Removing this fixed it and made it safer.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.

It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone spend much time on the topic, or even bring it up in conversation, on a conference stage, or behind a podcast mic.

There is, however, lots of discussion about achievement in business. A company can achieve product market fit, operational efficiency, influence, revenue goals, or, ultimately — and hopefully — profitability.

But I’m not taking about those things. Those are the obvious things, the common talking points. And to those you can add the vanity metrics of achievement — social media followers, traffic, views, impressions, open rates, press mentions, gross this or gross that.

All those are what they are, but they aren’t where it’s at.

What I’m talking about is optionality. Achieving optionality is where it’s at.

Optionality is a hearty mix of profit margin, small size, independence, attitude, and freedom. You’ve got to have all of it to have optionality.

If a board is calling the shots, you don’t have much optionality. If your margins are thin, or non-existent, you don’t have much optionality. If the public owns a piece, you don’t have much optionality. If you’re too big to change direction quickly, you don’t have much optionality. And if you’re afraid to speak your mind and stake your point of view, you don’t have much optionality.

Optionality lets you do things no one would give you permission to do. It lets you write excellent software and give it away for free if you choose. It lets you do things that don’t make sense in the current climate, but will long-term. It lets you be early while eventually catches up.

Optionality is ecstasy. It’s making it up as you go, without making excuses. It’s openly changing your mind without having to save face. Optionality is equanimity, the corporate equivalent of enlightenment.

So, entrepreneurs, ditch the bullshit. Abandon growth-at-all-costs. Reject conventional metrics. Scorn hollow acceptance. Instead, hunt for optionality. It's freedom. It's power. It's everything you crave, wrapped in a single, potent package. Chase it relentlessly. And when you get it, don’t let go.

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@IrishRugby Is Jack trying to be @bundeeaki12 V2.0

[Brian Caulfield 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @BrianCVC]

Scary stuff. Sanctions, sadly, never seem to work quite as intended...

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@codesennin @allenholub It's interesting that you define a PO's job as 'getting requirements in decent shape' and then say BA acting as PO is unpleasant for the team

What do the BAs do differently than POs in terms of getting requirements in good shape?

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@IrishRugby the supporters club site seems to have an issue, I can't access the presale link

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@allenholub I think @IntPtr_T is talking more about desiring a career switch rather than moving within company/industry.

I know it's somewhat off topic from the 'myth of the lazy dev', but it does show there's other reasons for lack of motivation than just poor management/culture

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@hkanji It's already aerosolised at the input to the hand dryer (in fact, most hand dryers source the air from a vent outside the room), hand dryer only stirs it!

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@WillSliney @RTE2 @RTEjr @WeeMissBea My son is wondering what hardware and software you're using.

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@CryptoFortunex @fred_pope @NeckarValue The 10x ers generally are self taught!

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

#SHOULDERTOSHOULDER #IREvITA #TEAMOFUS

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@nickchuckconn Congrats Nick, great to see ye going from strength to strength!

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@MarcoNL88 @aussiegoldy @johncutlefish It is, it's the opposite taken to it's extreme. Not what John was looking for but accurate none the less.

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@BrianCVC @the_hardiman Did they charge the single person supplement!

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@AdamPtrsen @CamiyKrab @emilymbender @timnitGebru @xriskology Access is hard to confirm in China, there's still a lot of rote memorization in Chinese education, but Asia generally tend to be better at math.

One factor in that may be that the language of number is more logical in Asian languages than European ones.

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@AdamPtrsen @CamiyKrab @emilymbender @timnitGebru @xriskology Agreed, my initial claim was loose, access to education is just one example factor.

Access alone clearly isn't the differentiator between Norway and China, Norway has near 100% access, and is an international case study in modern child centric education model

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@AdamPtrsen @CamiyKrab @emilymbender @timnitGebru @xriskology I didn't mention spending, I said access. Note also, in the intro on the site you linked it notes IQ is influenced by many political, national and geographic factors.

Which is my key point- it's not measuring something inate to the individual

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@CamiyKrab @emilymbender @timnitGebru @xriskology The bell curves not centering the same suggest It's not measuring an innate quality, it's measuring access to education

[Steven Fox @StevenRCFox]

@johncutlefish @MatanLurey Love @bmoesta 's bugbear here of not having meetings about meetings, let's just have the meeting and make a decision.

But you're 100% there's *loads* of busy work