Paul

Something good can work

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Still not over it 🤩

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

Imagine paying $20/month for Claude when you can just ask questions to the Chipotle customer support bot and get Opus 4.8 for free

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Happy birthday, Vik! 🫱🫲

[Ivar The Boneless @roomthinker]

This obtuseness from this ridiculous administration is tiresome.

Even before we get to CCTV control rooms (never mind how funding to schools has been cut) tell us about how basic shit like regular inspections of schools for safety equipment, training and disaster preparedness and management is taking place across Kenyan schools?

Has any media house and parents’ association taken initiative to randomly visit schools (and the education ministry) to ask these questions?

What use is CCTV control rooms without this basic stuff in place for heaven’s sake? 🤦🏾‍♂️🤡🚮

https://t.co/WfNLg8PPUF

[Sir Jenkinson @theEpicGooner]

You’ll see random pictures of Arshavin supporting Arsenal every year since he left. Dude never gave any interviews, just kept supporting the club like a proper fan. Top guy.

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

THIS. 😭❤️‍🔥

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

London is red. 🏆❤️

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

Mikel Arteta is loving it 😎

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

London is red. Forever and always. ❤️

[James Benge @jamesbenge]

Really struck by a sense every time one of them steps up that these guys have given so much for Arsenal, many of them for so long. They don't deserve to maybe be the guy that misses. Someone might have to be. This is a cruel sport.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A season to be proud of.

We pushed the boundaries over land and sea, and couldn't have done it without your support. Thank you, Gooners ❤️

[Paul @pbombo]

North London Forever

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

[Rahul Jain @rahulj51]

Imo, this has more profound implications than it sounds.

Middle management was largely performative theater but it was also a slight nod to a system of traditional career progression at tech companies - a ladder and a process of feedback by your immediate boss. Feedback meant companies were forced to define good behavior vs bad behavior aka values etc.

With middle managers gone, the way this plays out is that all conversations become purely tactical over time with a tacit understanding that we are here to get the job done and gtfo. Sounds exciting to everyone tired of meaningless bureaucracy like 1:1s and quarterly appraisals.

But this is actually more insidious. Because it depletes an org of its function as a career progressor.

Meanwhile, pure tactical work quickly translates to the exact same cluelessness that orgs had with layers of heirarchy and bullshit titles. No one knows where the ship is going though it's moving.

At some point most people mentally check out. It's not exactly quiet quitting - value gets produced in the short term. For all its flaws, AI actually helps keep the lights on and more. And folks aren't exactly planning to leave and jump ship. But they also don't come to work with a purpose. Orgs become temporary vehicles of sustenance, not places where careers are made.

Now the extraordinary 0.1% still find a way to navigate the system and progress their careers due to sheer talent or ambition. Those with very high agency but poor people skills quit to start something of their own.

What remains are schritte-für-schritte folks. These folks used to work for the promise of linear progression. They aren't poor performers by any means. In fact they are the most hard working middle who get shit done and hope that their work gets recognized. These are the ones who come prepared for their weekly 1:1s
because it means something to them. They are the ones who care about values and culture and cheer when the org does well. They may be sceptical at times but are still sold on the overall idea of the org and its purpose.

When orgs invested in people and promised a career progression, many of these folks did well for the orgs and for themselves. With that system officially or tacitly removed, they turn into zombies bracing for the next lay off cycle.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“I had a great conversation with (former Arsenal defender and academy manager) Per Mertesacker after the final in Baku,” says Arsenal co-chair Josh Kroenke.

“I made a comment about Virgil van Dijk, who had arrived at Liverpool a year or two before. I said, ‘How do we get one of these guys into our system?’”

Mertesacker explained that unless Arsenal were prepared to pay £100million, they shouldn’t even think about the likes of Van Dijk. Undeterred, Kroenke asked the former German international who he considered the best young defender in Europe.

“He turned without hesitation and said, ‘William Saliba.’”

Within a matter of months, Saliba had signed for Arsenal. It would be three years before he made his Premier League debut, and Kroenke admits to fretting over whether the signing would get his opportunity.

“I was sitting over in America laughing, going, ‘Please let this kid work out!’,” he says.

Read @gunnerblog’s full interview with Josh Kroenke for free: https://t.co/Jtkqf1znAO

[giraffe @neckincrisis]

mind your own fucking business

[sudox @kmcnam1]

jfc....

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

AGI is closer than you think.

[︎ًLevi @WittyLevi]

I’ll never forget when Tory Lanez stood up and was still the same height 😭😭