"A project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. If you deploy your system, but your manager or VP or CEO is very unhappy with it, you did not ship."
seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/#ship#productmanagement
"You should first create the universe and the jungle and use dependency injection to provide every tree one at a time, then generate the monkey to grab and eat the banana."
tselai.com/llm-frameworks#ai#llm#orm#ofc
"A false proxy is convenient, vivid and unhelpful. It's like asking a programmer how many words per minute they can type. It might be useful to be a fast typist, but it doesn't help you become a great programmer."
seths.blog/2024/10/five-l…#productivity#measurement#proxy
"The main problem, though, is that creating a PI plan for a quarter, executing it in sprints, and delivering whatever passes tests at the end of the quarter ignores the entire reason for agile product development: unc..."
infoq.com/articles/repla…#agile#dogma#humility#engine…
"When a person has a mental breakdown and the guards gently restrain them, repeating phrases like 'This isn't between you and me, we care about you, we love you, calm down, let's have a coffee after this,' — well, that is bound to change you."
thetaoist.online/what-if-free-w…
"Despite the fact that organizations from the OECD to the IMF have recognized that inequality is itself a brake on economic growth, fostering destructive "rent seeking" (seen today online in the form of enshittificati..."
doctorow.medium.com/the-problem-wi…#economics#models#enshittific…
"If the problem is one of estimation, then commit to half as much work and see what happens. If you run out of work to do, you can always throw more things on there. If you haven't even tried this, the most obvious thing on the planet, then yo..."
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fu…#esti…
"Your first thought is what everyone else thinks. Your best thought comes after you've thought long enough to forget what everyone thinks."
fs.blog/brain-food/oct…#creativity