"Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia: dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it’s worth." - Baz Luhrmann
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Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to use my holiday stay in Dharamshala. Its available for a couple of nights (24/25 May), 3 BHK in a nice place... Most interesting offer or best offer wins!!
Quite interesting to see Conway's Law come up in conversations over the years, from building up devops teams -> organizing autonomous teams building microservices -> enabling platform teams. Useful comment in the replies about the limitations of Inverse Conway Manoeuvre
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Conways Law has been an important part of my thinking for years. Important enough to affect every system I've come across, and powerful enough that you're doomed to defeat if you try to fight it.
https://t.co/CSl5ejLDik
My proposal is that the "up-front" part was never the problem. It's the "big" part.
As long as they improve the speed of feedback and reduce the time to deliver something valuable, all design techniques are on the table.
If you were planting a garden, you would focus on the nutrients in the soil, the sunlight and rain. You wouldn’t evaluate the little lettuce plants to see whether they were trying hard enough. You would take responsibility for all the conditions in the garden.
@gauravsabnis Yup, it's been a while. Great to see the different things that folks are up to! Say hi to him.
Will probably travel to the US next year, but mostly West Coast for now.
Corollary to Benjamin Franklin's oft misquoted quote
"Those who would give up essential Humanity, to purchase a little temporary Progress, deserve neither Humanity nor Progress."
Oh ... On Industrialization : A technology driven path to the next generation organisation - https://t.co/EmRTnYF91l ... my research project has been turtl'd and made public. I think that's the first time any of my research has been made public. That's cool.
I’ve worked with some of the smartest engineers at Mindtickle
, Slack, Microsoft, Astro, Acompli, Quickoffice and so on.
I got to observe what makes them stand out in their performance.
Here is a 🧵 on “7 Habits of highly effective engineers” that I have seen around me.