Rohit Sharma

[Rohit Sharma @srohits]

@suekhim I want my 9 yrs old son to understand and appreciate when and how to apply math to solve real life problems so he can stay engaged and learn math at a deeper level and learn programming the way your intro video shows. Please lemme know how and where to signup . Thanks

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

5 Charlie Munger Rules To Control Your Emotions For A Happier Life
https://t.co/KHSONUB30u

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

If Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" were country. This is actually pretty darn good. It may be because I love country, but what do you think?

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Agile Has Broken Your Company

The Agile Manifesto was signed in 2001 by 17 developers trying to fix broken software projects. It worked…until it didn't. Twenty-five years later, Agile has become a $20B+ industry, and the software it produces is getting worse.

The Four Principles
The Manifesto prioritized:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan

These aren't wrong in isolation but the problem is what they became in practice.

"Responding to change" became an excuse to never finish anything. Stanford researchers found scope creep was institutionalized and rebranded as "sprint replanning," one of the top drivers of cost overruns.

"Working software over documentation" quietly gutted institutional knowledge. A 2023 GitLab survey found only 12% of developers felt their codebase was well-documented. In other words, technical debt became structural.

"Velocity" replaced quality. Story points. Burn-down charts. Throughput. None of these measure whether the software is any good. The Manifesto said build software that works, and a focus on velocity forgot that.

The Numbers Are Damning
McKinsey found technical debt now consumes 20–40% of engineering capacity in most large organizations.

The Consortium for Information & Software Quality estimated poor software quality cost U.S. companies $2.41 trillion in 2022, with $1.52 trillion from operational failures alone. Agile has been the dominant methodology for most of that period.

The Standish Group's CHAOS Report found that in 2020, only 31% of software projects were considered successful.

What You Don't Notice Until It's Too Late
Current software development best practices have killed systems thinking.

When your planning horizon is two weeks, you don't design systems anymore, you assemble features. The result is a mess of fragmented architectures, microservices sprawl, and codebases no single engineer fully understands.

The "Product Owner" role that was supposed to represent the customer became a bureaucratic proxy. A layer between engineers and business outcomes, distorting requirements at every handoff.

The Alternative: Software Factory
The best engineers have always known what actually works. They write specs. They think in systems. They document decisions. They go slow to go fast.

At 8090, we call this approach Software Factory. We look at software delivery like a production system with defined inputs, quality gates, and measurable outputs. Architecture is a first-class citizen from day one, not something you refactor into after 40 sprints. Documentation is built in, not bolted on.

Quality Is Speed
Every hour spent on rework, incident response, and technical debt is an hour that could have gone into upfront design or testing. Speed and quality don’t need to be in tension - it’s a false choice in modern mythology.

If your team still measures success in story points and sprint velocity, ask yourself: What's your defect rate? Your documentation coverage? Your time to onboard a new engineer? Your incident frequency?

If you don't like the answers, it's probably time for a different model.

Try Software Factory at https://t.co/fkfTXgdfXK

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A father passing by his son's bedroom noticed the room unusually clean and saw an envelope propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, "Dad"...

With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands.

"Dear, Dad. It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and you.

I've been finding real passion with Stacy.

She is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercing's, tattoos, her tight motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.

But it's not only the passion, Dad. She's pregnant.

Stacy said that we will be very happy.

She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter.

We share a dream of having many more children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that these things don't really hurt anyone.

Don't worry Dad, I'm 16, and I know how to take care of myself.

Someday, I'm sure we'll be back to visit so you can get to know your many grandchildren.

Love, your son, Josh

P.S . Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Jason's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report card that's on the kitchen table.

Call when it is safe for me to come home.

[TrendSpider @TrendSpider]

"It's different this time bro" $MSTR

[NewsForce @Newsforce]

This might be the best SNL skit in the past 20 years.

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

Only thing better than Akshaya Khanna’s Rehman Daikat walk is the song playing in the background.

A track you don’t understand a word of, yet it gets to your head. Downright addictive🎶🔥
#Dhurandhar

[Larry Tentarelli, Blue Chip Daily @bluechipdaily]

$JPM blueprint to become the world’s first fully AI powered megabank.
https://t.co/cQVO0HLuPt

[Rohit Sharma @srohits]

@LeadingReport @DavidSacks , as @Jason said both sides have their share of crazies …

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Rigged election. *points to Erdogan* He knows about rigged elections better than anybody.

[Rohit Sharma @srohits]

@ABTradess Yes please !

[Albert Breer @AlbertBreer]

If you can’t appreciate what Dan Lanning is trying to do here, you’re part of the problem. This is incredibly well-said.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Beautiful, strong words, from Erika Kirk 🙏👏

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

That time Travis Pastrana jumped from a single-engine Cessna at 12,500 feet over Arecibo, Puerto Rico, wearing only sunglasses, socks, and surf trunks while holding a can of Red Bull, and without a parachute.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Rohit Sharma @srohits]

So I asked both chatgpt and grok to solve these seemingly simple puzzles and both couldn’t come up with correct answers after multiple tries @elonmusk & @sama @OpenAI 😞

[ProblemSniper @ProblemSniper]

📈 $SPY IS THE SEASONALITY GOING TO PLAY AGAIN?

• Watch the trendlines here. The lower trendline aligns with a bull gap and can be expected to have a dead cat bounce but if we do see a break under on daily watch out for a quick flush.
• If we do see a flush under the trendline 628 622 and 619 opens up.
• I do not see SPY going under 600 anymore with the max pull back I am expecting to be atmost 605 if there is a broad range of pull back.
• Today something to observe was, money was rotating out of chips and banks. Thats usually not a good sign in the market whose strength was led by these sectors.
• Any pull back to the said levels above is a buying opportunity for longer time frames.
• Good spot to hedge the market as well.

SORRY I HAVE NOT BEEN ACTIVE ANYWHERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WILL BE BACK ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE POSTING UPDATES AGAIN FROM SEPTEMBER. TAKING THIS TIME TO HEAL AND SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY.

If you like my analysis hit the ❤️ and repost.

[Caleb Franzen @CalebFranzen]

Straight out of a skit from The Office.