Olivier De Meulder

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@mattyglesias Not sure how many of your 117000 subscribers are Belgian, but this truly enjoyed the spotlight on our little country.

Want to know the secret to succeeding in the contemporary media environment? Yesterday's Slow Boring post about Belgian history went out to 117,000 people, had a 43% open rate, and generated 11 new paid subscriptions. slowboring.com/p/why-putin-th…

So do I

@mattyglesias Prescriptions are the difference, no? Nobody can sell prescription drugs unless they are FDA approved. For OTC ( over the counter) anything goes.

It’s incredibly hard to get FDA approval for a new medicine, if and only if you are trying to make medicine that works. If it’s fake medicine, you can just sell it no questions asked and do whatever marketing you want.

@alex_kuhner @benharnett Threads is nice. Come on over there.

@mathiasverraes So true. It irks me so much.

To all US journalists: You can call the US president the “leader of the free world” when the free world gets to vote in your elections. Until then, they’re your leader, not ours. Respectfully, The free world

@heyits0livia I schedule time on my own calendar. Gcal has a focus time feature. I schedule the time with a specific purpose/ goal for each focus time appointment. E.g. next Thursday 10-11, I will work on x and produce y. I also make my weekly work goals public for accountability.

If you’re someone who has a busy schedule and does a lot of context switching, how do you carve out time for deep thinking? I’d love to hear how you approach this or what strategies you’ve tried.

@namepa100169 @CraigatCoF Mine is Never Enough. I’ve had enough of it a long time ago.

Hot! Hot! Hot! no no no. @CraigatCoF has Wrong Number and I have this one.

Slack is the policy of deliberately leaving time that isn't allocated for stories, using that time for unplanned work. Although this seems inefficient, it usually yields a significant improvement for the productivity of a team.

@garychou 🇧🇪

These are so dangerous

Don't scale agile. Descale the work and organisation instead. One of the best books on building an agile organisation is not what you'd expect. But 'Team of Teams' is a bible for building a resilient and adaptive organisation. Here's serveral enablers from the book 👇 /1

Some teams struggle because there’s too much friction in making improvements. If a dev has to create a ticket, sell management, size the task, and get it prioritized, they’re likely to just say "not worth it." Solution: Welcome proactive improvements. Make them easy.

@housecor @tastapod Right there in a link from the article you posted: We needed labels for the domains that didn’t have an obvious hierarchy, and we settled on colours. If your domains are called Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, etc. then there isn’t an obviously “best” one. gitlab.com/-/snippets/184….

Does anyone know how blue-green deployments got its name? I often call it red-green deployments. I see the green as representing the live env, and the red representing the non-live env. cc @tastapod More: martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGree…

A key dev team role: Architect. Duties: -Foster reuse -Enforce consistency -Standardize solutions -Select technologies and patterns -Review changes with a holistic view -Automate time-consuming and redundant tasks -Consider the long-term implications of key decisions

@robinberjon Là-bas, au Connemara On dit que la vie, c'est une folie Et que la folie, ça se mange

Some engineers have asked whether they should be a generalist or a specialist. In my opinion we have room for and need both. And I love this quote from Vonnegut below.

I like to tell my team: "If you don't think you can contribute meaningfully to a meeting, just leave. Don't attend meetings that have no agenda. Be suspicious of meetings with too many attendees."

Queen bee. First time. #spellingbee

@garychou g5t

Grift things that don't scale

Always Be Grifting

@justinph Same here.

COVID found my house after two and half years, on thanksgiving day. 5x vaccinated here, hope that helps. 🤞

@schwanzer I think this entire crypto business is a sham.

Two Estonian citizens arrested in $575 mln cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering scheme reuters.com/legal/two-esto…