Barry McGee

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

Hottest of hot takes: Musk just bought Twitter with the sole aim of returning a Republican administration in 2024. Trump will be reinstated within weeks.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@nathan_covey @_CoachMathias No - we're just as addicted, if not, more.

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@_The_Prophet__ Can't remember where/when I read this but there was a study that showed teens were never less likely to be killed (due reckless immature behaviour) but never more likely to kill themselves.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@JP_Biz They did put up rates and we already pay for water with said rates. Ending pay parity is another way of saying - 'be paid less for doing the same job in the same country' so that can get in the bin also. As was ever thus - London looking over at Paddy and saying - make do.

[Shopify Engineering @ShopifyEng]

Since we open-sourced pi-autoresearch, @Shopify teams have been running it on everything.

Results so far:
Unit tests: 300x faster
React component mounting: 20% faster
CI build time: 65% reduction
Made pnpm run faster

Autoresearch never stops trying things you'd never have time to try.

Repo: https://t.co/473UFWKanV

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@BBCNewsNI Failed state.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@aiDotEngineer @altryne is there a Slack for conf attendees?

[Ben Eisenhart @BEisenhart]

There is no one more confident in their worldview than someone who has never left their hometown.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@J_K_Wood @NickJFreitas @AndrosMoreira The Daily Mail UK is a leftist rag? 🤣🤣🤣

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@newsmulg They’re just had a refill - all petrol pumps operational again

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk Repeating this for THIRD time then I'm done - BBC DC correspondents are US focussed & have 0 context on NI. I'm sure many would love if local journalists stayed away from the unionisms junket to US to hear Trump joke about a United Ireland but that's not how free press works.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk Ah, you've figured out Google afterall 👏🏻 So your suggestion is ELP is gonna walk round all week with a satellite link back to Ormeau Ave, aye?

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty Fucking hell Mark, the answer is in black and white in the screenshot but I'll repeat it for you in simple terms no worries:

** local context **

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty https://t.co/RrUIs8pVRg can easily answer these basic queries Mark, I suggest you make better use of it?

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty The BBC's mission is to inform, educate, and entertain all audiences. It's not there solely to provide markbtuk from Twitter, with a football pitch for a head, value or benefit. FFS man, get out of your hole 🤣

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@Iancampbell1967 Good man Ian - hope you took a minute to breathe deeply and enjoy the blue sky.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@markbtuk @DarranMarshall @endamcclafferty You literally just engaged with his output from the US.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@davidwkerr @gordonlyons1 @America250 @SenCapito What inspiration we can take from the USA who had the wisdom to jettison crown and monarchy 250 years ago, became a republic and has never looked back. Let's all drink to that! 🍾

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

[Barry McGee @barrymcgee]

@EllliotttB AI = Actually, India