kennedy collins

erstwhile architect, fool.

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@ejames_c experts can have a little confirmation bias, as a treat.

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@plzbepatient Pyramids weren’t built by aliens, they were built by Egyptians to impress aliens.

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@p_millerd I read this as a kind of functional fixedness(? maybe not the right word) —I’m guessing this dude only thinks about hiring/firing at the individual level for SVP+ execs with pre-negotiated severance. Chris Paul’s time at the Suns isn’t a bad analogy for that, but this ain’t that

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@visakanv One of my fondest memories from growing up is my dad continuing to pick up me and my brother once a year on our birthday (twins) just to prove he still could and would. I think we made it to age 18 (and ~175lbs each) for us, 51 for him, before he threw in the towel.

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@gbrl_dick me, after reading about the titan sub:
of course they died, who would ride in an under-tested submarine
me, seeing this:
looks fun! can’t be that dangerous, right?

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@eigenrobot this is a story about how a 1600 room luxury hotel owned by private equity didn’t weather the pandemic well, not about the decay of Chicago. (this space is part of the ground floor retail of the Palmer House Hotel; which is in some sort of receivership it seems)

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@eigenrobot @auderdy I wonder if people outside the Midwest even realize how astoundingly Minnesota this sentence is.

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@visakanv “The Iron never lies to you. […] The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. […] Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”

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@visakanv Henry Rollins has one of the better essays on this topic: https://t.co/lwHxbrvnSy

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@edelwax @patio11 If I am accurately parsing what it’s an admittedly abstract thread - in my experience this kind of thing does not “close” those avenues of action, per se, but it does make it significantly harder to navigate them (sometimes to the point where they might as well be closed).

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@DanielZarick vintage sales daddy energy. great work.

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@johncutlefish https://t.co/iuIF5s300G

https://t.co/iNz6zJbbCL

Here are a couple of analogies (and books based on them) that I feel do a pretty good job - hopefully helpful starting points. The book themselves are only ok IMO.

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@tweet_librarian (sorry, typed out a draft and forgot to hit send!)

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@tweet_librarian From a practices perspective, trying to set up systems to understand those “whys” (or “reasons” as Joe called them) — both to understand if we’re still meeting them and to identify emergent ones that we weren’t designing for.

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@p_millerd This old talk of his is also great — easily in the top five ideas that had the most impact on how I think about my work as a product manager:

https://t.co/gwx25ceL17

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@mikedymikedy @johncutlefish @martinfowler for the last reason, I usually frame this work as “improving internal quality” where the developers themselves are the users, and pair with the tech lead to create backlog items to address it.

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@mikedymikedy @johncutlefish @martinfowler …and you’re involving the developers in identifying what aspects of the codebase are slowing them down/making it hard to understand/making it hard to change things and prioritizing based on their “user feedback”.