Michael McCliment

Project Lead @ubisoft; organizer, #DevOpsDaysMTL • math / linguistics / cogsci afficionado • views and opinions are mine • he/him

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[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

Exploring Mastodon. You can find me there @[email protected].

[steve o'grady @sogrady]

best i can tell, most mastodon servers are run on a purely volunteer basis, and when you raise this as an issue people say "it's fine, there's patreon, github sponsors, ko-fi, etc."

anyone with a background in open source economics can explain why that answer is not fine.

[Therese Hansen @qedtherese]

If your team hates retrospectives, you might want to think about if they are really working as a team or are more loosely coupled employees doing their own thing.

I have seen this so many times. Start with building the team rather than finding new ways of doing retros.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@shelbyspees I don't think we've crossed paths there yet. I just started exploring there and finding people over the weekend.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@eikonne @HiredThought I'm not familiar with his work. If I add something to my reading-options list for the future, anything in particular you'd recommend?

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@kevinriggle @HaysKali Eighty-hour coding interview, final presentation must be in bullet points and screen captures.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@ReinH Maybe he should try mixing it up a bit? Tell them to work off and... oh, you know what? Nevermind.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@richburroughs @ReinH That should be considered NSFW. At least, in most workplaces.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@eikonne Me: *raises hand*

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@StevenShorrock @rob_england Same. I'm trying to figure out how to curate my feed there.

I discovered last week that there's a sorting option for the feed to get recent (rather than top) posts, which is making it easier for me to see what's noise that I want to cut.

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

@eikonne anyway, tech debt is a sacrifice decision: you are sacrificing a lower priority or value goal to achieve a higher priority or value goal. sacrifice decisions are ubiquitous in business.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@richburroughs Trending is cursed, methinks...

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.

Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

Humbled. Probably one of the most amazing pieces of feedback I've received in my career, from someone who helped me learn how to lead. 💜

[Martin Asnong @Valkendorm]

@flybayer Great leadership and mentoring from @cornazano helped me understand myself, and build my self-confidence.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@Valkendorm @flybayer Still miss working with you, and learning together how to make changes safely in our systems!

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@jpaulreed @ahidalgosre Organization X, where the learning is made up and the incidents don't matter?

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@norootcause Blackletter. Bonus points for scanning your own calligraphic hand from parchment.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@richburroughs I've seen at least one that was non-disruptive. It involved a certain amount of abdication of responsibility on the part of some mid-to-senior managerial folks.

[Michael McCliment @cornazano]

@ReinH @kartar The one enjoying a nice relaxing day of exhausting the supply of adaptive capacity?