Benji Shieh

moving little dials in enterprise

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@sdw you have to be in the know / skin in the game to judge the quality of feedback. needle may not be worth searching the haystack (of reddit here) but with AI, it could be?

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@KiLVaiDeN @dvn_ @aidan_mclau waiting for the soul to drop

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

what's something that's past the point of complaining? of meme jokes? of another raising awareness campaign? of another news article?

[henry 🌘 @hdevalence]

the reason naming things is the hardest problem "in computer science" is that it's not a computer science problem, it's a psychosocial summoning ceremony whose aim is to conjure exactly the desired concepts in other people's minds

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Taiwan is basically Arrakis.

It's the sole source of the single most important commodity for our civilization, that if produced in enough quantities can perform miracles, enable space travel, solve longevity, birth gods.

Both Chips and Spice come from sand.

Both are produced by super-long, complicated machines that essentially no one actually understands or is able to reproduce.

Both are threatened by totalitarian and violently oppressive regimes whose political orders are based on treacherous games of back-stabbing slippery-pole politics that skew heavily towards rouge color themes.

I wouldn't be surprised if many TSMC employees live in secret Seiches to hide their true numbers from Harkonnen ornithopters.

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

UX/Product designers — not every problem is your problem

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@jsngr 🙋‍♂️

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@ErisDrew Some do I hope but definitely in different ways. The real world is messy and tech is a part of that. I think dreams need to embrace that - not run from messiness, complication and compromise.

[Carmen @carmenleelau]

ok ok hear me out: you should all be making your own personal sigils to defend against your worst fears. it’s simple to do and works well because they’re made by *you*. here’s how

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@maccaw techno utopia 😇

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@round brought to you by a PM or SM

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

In many ways, evolution is life finding out the hard way. We be doing that too.

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@_max_bo_ @MitchBernstein Think people are forgetting this is for Shopify admin. People who are running businesses who want to get in and get out.

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

If true, would be world changing. However, would darken implications of Fermi paradox even more?!

[Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0]

Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@darylginn This is the take politician have and sell. Change for changes sake because it scratches the part of our brains for novelty.

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.

Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

@itspatmorgan @moreofmorris one of those things that can add a surprising amount of work for designers. can be offloaded if seniors/leadership have a strong vision+shaping process but that so often falls to the designer. 🤷

[Benji Shieh @benjishieh]

design is in its uncanny valley phase

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

We're all familiar with the Motte and Bailey.

Nick Shackel described and named it in a 2005 paper entitled "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology".

But did you know he also named four other rhetorical maneuvers?

Let's go through them!