Daniel Nice

Senior Software Developer

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@baharkarakrt X = 6
Y = 0.5

I am guessing since no symbol for xy it = 60.5 it’s that or 6.5

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Electric surfboards are about to make jet skis look ancient.

Silent, fast, and way too fun.

[Vic Lombardi @VicLombardi]

I can’t stop watching this.
How????

[LB @beyondreasdoubt]

Grieve however you need to

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

She just explained men in the best way possible

[James @DenverThugget]

This is not a highlight. It’s a mindset.

🔊 Sound ON

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@DenverThugget Well said

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@VicLombardi Bolles is a good dude! His kids go to the same public school as my kids.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[DNVR Nuggets @DNVR_Nuggets]

RETWEET IF NIKOLA JOKIC IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD 🃏

🔥🌎

[Coach 🔔 @TheCoachesDesk]

Such an interesting Story told by @TheRock and his contract negotiations with Vince.

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Most 30/20/10 games in last 50 years:

Nikola Jokic - 10
Rest of NBA combined - 6

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@Tyler_Polumbus @AdamSchefter I would agree

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

History: The Patriots now have lost their sixth Super Bowl, more than any other NFL franchise.

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@Tyler_Polumbus I liked him going for it. I didn’t like the play call.

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

Really good!

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Powerful words

[Daniel Nice @danielmesh]

@DMacSportsCO

[Jeff Dye @JeffDye]

😂. Who made this. This is great.