The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
"Grant applications should be assessed on their scientific merits—not on the sex or political leanings of the applicant," writes @theandrewglover.
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The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons.
Some male blue whales weigh as much as 200 tons.
A blue whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs.
The largest animal that ever lived.
#Lebanon:
Reports indicate that civilian houses & infrastructure are being targeted by strikes, leading to the deaths of entire families & triggering mass, unprecedented displacement.
Civilians must be kept safe & their basic needs met, whether they move or stay. #NotATarget.
I got a sneak peak at some of the amazing stuff they’re dreaming up at the ol’ @intellijidea ranch to make the lives of Spring developers even better, namely a new “Structure View” which shows that IntelliJ has a really good awareness of a @SpringBoot application.
Instead of "when will this be done," ask "when can people start using this?"
They're not the same question. You can create a feature in one big-bang (waterfall-style) or you can create it in a number of "value drops" and collect feedback along the way.
A few quotes on metrics:
"Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave." -Goldratt
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.” (Deming [The New Economics])`
“You can only measure three percent of what matters” (Deming, quoted by Peter Senge)
"Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership." (Deming's "Fourteen Points for Management" from 'Out of the Crisis', 1982)
"What gets measured gets managed - even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organization to do so." (attributed to Drucker)
“Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.” - Russell Ackoff
Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
The #ApacheKafka 3.8 release added a number of new features, including KIP-813: Shareable State Stores, but a lot of people are unclear on how this feature actually works.
In his new blog, @MatthiasJSax takes a deep dive into the topic.
Read it here ➡️ https://t.co/K6u1Kc8N4s
BREAKING: The Biden administration tapped Mira Resnick, an official deeply involved in weapons transfers to Israel, for a new role shaping policy at the State Department on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. https://t.co/S17a6q5e6V