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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. propublica.org/article/muscul… equilibriabook.com

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.

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

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.

Wake Up, Sartre - existentialcomics.com/comic/448

@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”

@nditada Your definition is interesting, but it does not apply where I am thinking. When @NateSilver538 says covid policy arguments are "orthogonal" to traditional liberal positions he means "unrelated". Which seems very jargon-y to me.

Why do tech people prefer to say "orthogonal" instead of "unrelated"? Is it just the benefit an in-group gets from use of jargon in general, or is there some other benefit?

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.

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

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

@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.

@nditada Am I looking in the wrong dictionary? Is that a term of art in math? What do I make of the difference between your definition and this dictionary definition, which mentions none of that?

@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”). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogona…

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?

@alixtrot Sad that this is relevant once again: linkedin.com/posts/nditada_…

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.

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

Once in a full moon Me: *opens LinkedIn LinkedIn: I SEE YOU ARE A CTO HOW ABOUT SOME OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT DO YOU WANT AI FOR YOUR CALANDER LOOK AT THIS BOOMER FEEL GOOD TED TALK Me: *closes the tab

You can also respond marketing emails with: 10minutes.ofmytime.tech 20minutes.ofmytime.tech 30minutes.ofmytime.tech

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. 15minutes.ofmytime.tech

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.

Highly relevant: equilibriabook.com