The Greenhorn CTO

@siteshps @george__mack There is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_fr…

@george__mack There should be a term for this: Reserve language of the world. Soft power (Literature, Music, Movies/TV, Debates/Speeches/Talks) to influence the rest of the world might even be more important than economical/military 🤔

If you're a native English speaker, wake up grateful every day. You get life's video game on easy mode -- and it's pure luck.

@johncutlefish and it's led to much, much more quality feedback and conversation from consensus-driven teams.

@johncutlefish This format sometimes leads to difficulty drawing out feedback from consensus-driven teams. The language implies the speaker feels the team SHOULD or MUST change behavior, which are strong terms. I recently started using "I like, I wish, We will" instead...

@BradPorter_ If you wanted to take one slide out of this deck and critique it with no other context, as if all Hastings said was to not hire brilliant jerks, that's certain... a take.

"Creating an exhaustive list of bad behaviors is tough and not that easy to operationalize, nor does it send the signal you want to send to the organization. But 'no assholes' is a low bar and we should aim higher." buff.ly/40sFKK6

So yeah, this is another terrible shame in a long string of shames surrounding Twitter and @elonmusk. These managers did the right thing. They cleared SPOFs in their orgs and prepared their successors. And they were fired for it.

Any manager who cares about being promoted should be able to answer the question of who will assume their duties in that event. A manager who can't answer that is another 🚩

The worst part of this (aside from the blatant deception) is that if those promoted employees were able to assume their former manager's role and responsibilities without trouble, it means those managers that were fired had been doing an excellent job. Why? 🧵

@ahl I don't know why not. It's a perfectly cromulent idea.

I’m on the precipice if starting a podcast about the Simpsons. Good idea or great idea?

Also, the worst software engineers often have zero online presence. Another way of putting this is that online presence and engineering aptitude are not correlated, and that engineers with an online presence represent a trivially small subset of all engineers.

@Carnage4Life The person who reported it

So, rather than screaming into the void regarding my thoughts on Platform Engineering, I thought I'd just scream those thoughts into a blog post instead - Don't Call It A Platform: samnewman.io/blog/2023/02/0…

@GergelyOrosz Is this not a core part of the CTO's job (or at least the head of engineering)? It's baffling to me to think that any leader could offload responsibility for the department's culture to someone else.

Here's a part of the job ad. It's for Miro. And the full ad. I *do* wonder if you can really run the eng culture with a new hire though, versus the leadership driving it more implicitly (and also explicitly)... linkedin.com/jobs/collectio…

Saw a job ad for "Head of Engineering Culture." First time I saw this role. "Looking for a senior executive with strong proficiency in change & transformation and organization development in product & eng environments to help build and shape the engineering org culture."

I thought this went without saying but... Don't manage laterally or upward the same way you manage downward! They require different approaches and communication styles!