Nicolás di Tada

Director of Engineering at Founder at

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

This is a great example of the pitfalls of epistemic (dis)incentives of expert dominated systems and why we should read @ESYudkowsky 's “Inadequate Equilibria”; it can literally save lives.

https://t.co/Hd65McL984

https://t.co/mGDRGfwrm0

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

If a factory worked like a software development shop, the car would be redesigned continuously as it moved along the line. You'd have no idea what the car would look like until you delivered it, and every car you delivered would be different. We do not work in a factory.

[Molly Mielke McCarthy @mollyfmielke]

i think we underappreciate the strength of character required of a person to pick breadth over depth. all the incentives push you to join a tribe and take on a pre-packaged identity — choosing not to is almost an act of rebellion

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Almost everything bad in the way large businesses are run comes down to distrust and opacity. Trusting people to do their work, and making that easy by making process transparent, is a game changer.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Wake Up, Sartre -
https://t.co/OMmeCc7VMQ

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

@jselanikio @NateSilver538 Some of those tweets have confusing uses of the word, but the one you mention makes sense to me. I read “For each possible policy there will be people on both liberal and conservative sides that will be in favor and against it”

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

In a time when our attention spans are constantly shortening, I have deep thankfulness for this man's decades of unrelenting focus. His legacy has implications for pretty much any discipline that interacts with humans. 3/3

Christopher passed away on March 17, 2022.

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

In 1979, Christopher Alexander wrote "The Timeless Way of Building," intuiting there was a quality for things that had life but could not pinpoint it with precision. 1/3

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

In 2002, in "The Nature of Order," he managed to distill that quality to its essentials, in the process redefining the concept of life. 2/3

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

@jselanikio The fact that two dimensions/variables are orthogonal to each other implies that you can change the value of one, without affecting the other. But it also means that there is a point in space (geometrical or conceptual) where both values exist together.

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

@jselanikio You are looking at it right. The usage in systems design is derived from its stats usage, which I guess is derived from its original geometrical definition (orthogōnios meaning "right-angled”). https://t.co/DXIhr8eMyd

[Jen Yang-Wong @Jenyangwong]

Early in my career, a mentor broke down the different kinds of PMs for me. I had no idea that there were different kinds. One’s not better than another, but playing to your strengths + interests can help you land the role you want.

What kind of PM are / do you want to be?

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

@alixtrot Sad that this is relevant once again: https://t.co/KzLSc9lMNU

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

An org that never experiments—tries radical ideas to see how they work—is hardly agile. Agile is not a process or framework, it's a frame of mind, and experimental learning is a big part of that.

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

@bararchy You are welcome to copy my response-template-in-a-link:

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

There has to be a better way to sell each other stuff. In the meantime, I’m responding with this to create a bit of friction on the other side. At least it add a cost back to the automated interruption. https://t.co/TSFHtlfUAC

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

You can also respond marketing emails with:

https://t.co/15cOAyzlmM
https://t.co/lSlacIjkPf
https://t.co/bwJfH2YH1E

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

I am sick and tired of outbound marketing. Email and LinkedIn messages have become unusable to me thanks to this. Careful crafting of those emails not only bypasses google filters but it evens hijacks my cognitive ability to ignore them.

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

There has to be a better way to sell each other stuff. In the meantime, I’m responding with this to create a bit of friction on the other side. At least it add a cost back to the automated interruption. https://t.co/TSFHtlfUAC

[Nicolás di Tada @nditada]

Highly relevant: https://t.co/mNkGjj0JH6

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Doctor vs Patient: Who knows more?