Frank Kotsianas

If you would build a ship Do not drum up people to collect wood And don't assign them tasks and work But teach them to long For the endless immensity of the sea - Antoine de Saint-Exupery This applies to everything

@GergelyOrosz Honestly one of the most helpful diagrams I've seen on the topic

Roles overlapping in tech and the intersection you should be beware of...

@patio11 Well said sir!

Follows by “Interesting report of bottlenecks. Are they solvable with, we don’t know, money? What is the elasticity here? If you had one aircraft carrier equivalent of money, how many months would that move the timetable forward? We have many aircraft carrier equivalents.”

Personal opinion, but I am glad that Pfizer and Moderna shared their vaccines with the world by inventing and distributing them. I hope we massively increase the production of vaccines to be shared with the world, and incentivize future sharing appropriately.

@ldavidmarquet Gold!

@wcrichton The most critical function of a tutor is to Be There and Support The Student. Most human functions are functions of motivation rather than ability. People are capable of most anything if you can help them find it interesting 😄

@wcrichton This is very true

The more I read, the more it seems like everything I know about education and instruction is completely wrong.

@krishnanrohit @nickcammarata Well said! Do you think an alternative/competitive informal school system (think: an alternative private school system, but cheaper), would help both sides of the debate grow by getting what they need? Or are there hidden risks to sth like that?

@nickcammarata Getting rid of school works well for those who would've done well outside - autodidacts, maybe gifted, da Vincis. The rest need somewhere to raise their standard somehow. Schools a great civilisational strategy. Its decayed, and could use a reboot, but organised ed is crucial.

Since gifted children discourse is trending I’d like to say that actually I’m pro getting rid of gifted children school, also the rest of school

@johncutlefish Platform is the Lego bricks, product is the finished castle (or pirate ship, or Millennium Falcon...)

@optimuslebron @jhong @Purswell14 @wesyang V thought-provoking discussion. Wonder if what makes this question interesting is that EV is usually applied to repeatable games and this game is 1-shot - perhaps that's where someone's personal risk threshold can enter the mathematical equation?

@jhong @Purswell14 @wesyang ok, i see what u mean. emotion definitely should be accounted for in any logical/rational analysis of human behaviors. in this context, the analyst is rational but the behavior being analyzed isn’t - hence my initial quibble.

7 year old daughter before bed: “would you rather have a fifty-fifty change of winning a million dollars or zero dollars - or a 100 percent chance of winning a thousand dollars?”

@GehaniNeil @shreyas Conductor of an orchestra is such a good metaphor!

@shreyas Yeah, I've see this as well. Not just within their org but peers outside their org. PM's sometimes forget that they are conductor of an orchestra - the talent is the musicians!

One challenge I have observed with most PM orgs that have a very high talent bar is that the Product Managers within such orgs hesitate to seek help, input, and advice from their peer PMs, thereby failing to avail one of the big benefits of being a part of a very talented PM org.

@johncutlefish Can you expand on this? My first thought is, "well, must be a sales-driven company - the user is not the purchaser" - but I wonder if you've seen explicit 2nd-order effects of not focusing on UX that will rear their heads in the long run? Eg even affecting code quality in the lt

@johncutlefish This is it! A team works on 1 thing at a time, a working group works on many (would you say)? This definitely just made something click in my head

@woodwardjd @johncutlefish This. And not sure how much team is in flow or how much team is actually getting done. Is 9 hi or low or avg for the team. Is team satisfied?

@johncutlefish my second takeaway is: this lens gives a good view of the stage of the tasks/projects/products, and who's at least partially responsible for them currently, but doesn't say much about status, risk, timeline, deadlines, dependencies or other things one might be interested in.

@Niklas_L @tottinge Hadn't seen this and expands what I've been thinking on for my own practice, thanks!

@tottinge It was the same for me, plus I got confused why it is both a distinction between using mocks and not using them, and also between outside-in and inside-out TDD. I wonder if you have seen tddstpau.li ?

Confession: I've still not studied and internalized the London/mockist school of TDD. Someday, really.

@MonotoneCrypto @5050isaloss @ercwl Funny, even crypto isn't immune to identity politics

@5050isaloss @ercwl He rarely provides any technical or justified reasons for his criticisms. He doesn't need to as 95% of his followers are eth maxis that will agree with any nonsense he pukes.

doing some lightweight cardano research and it’s not, uh, looking great

@anon3194 @zhusu @wclemente Not bad

2x calls v puts Anyone remember what happened in Dec 2020? $BTC

@MichePriest @johncutlefish What would that sort of team look like for you Miche? 😃

@lovinmygirls218 @SixteenPizzas THANK YOU TWITTER!!!!!!

Some kids pranked a school board meeting on some Bart Simpson shit and I am crying!! 😭😭😭😭

@redditships @Blockanalia LOL

My [31M] fiancee/girlfriend [28F] is upset that I proposed with an NFT instead of a ring. What can I do about this? rareddit.com/r/relationship…

@hpdailyrant Beautiful!

@allenholub Stolen, seems like something that can very easily be implemented for improvement in modern Slack channels (and a great way to give kudos while radiating information at low cost!)

The second is an "improvement board" [holub.com/im]. Whenever somebody makes a small improvement, put a sticky on the board. Periodically gather around the board and discuss what you did so that everybody can know about it. 5/9

The Japanese, from whom the concept of continuous improvement comes, see it as an improvement culture, not a set of events or activities. Everybody is constantly on the lookout for ways to improve, and when they see something, the organization helps them make it real. 2/9