Tom Ridge

Everyone wants fast delivery. What you actually want is predictable delivery. You get predictable by working small. When you work small you get more feedback, for your product and your code. Know what happens when you action feedback more often? You get fast delivery.

Full room for @tjridge at #dddadelaide for his talk on How to (remotely) win friends and influence people 🎉

Still in amazement at just how incredible the talk from Kate was today. Story telling, technical detail all top notch, and it was her first time speaking to boot. Incredible #DDDAdelaide

@glennwrites1 I saw someone frame anger once as just “misaligned expectations”, and that just rang so true to me.

Unrealistic expectations are the biggest cause of unhappiness.

@waronweakness What do you think is the main blocker to folks getting started though? What’s that mindshift that happens so all of a sudden doing all the above is just no big deal

Online business isn't hard. 97% of the time you're literally: > Typing in a Google doc > Talking on a zoom call > Messaging someone on social media There's nothing hard about it. You're not digging trenches or policing the bad side of town. But there's a lot of uncertainty involved and that's where most people fail. They're not willing to post content for 12 months straight without guarantees they'll make munny. They're not willing to get on a call with a stranger who might say "no" to their $2,000 offer. They're not willing to DM 100 creators without guarantee that one of them will say yes to coming on their podcast. Again... Online business is not "hard". It's uncertain, lonely and chaotic. And most people simply don't have the mental fortitude for it.

@kirbyjswalls @thejoshsandefer @Youssef_Writes @waronweakness I’ll join ya mate.

@thejoshsandefer @Youssef_Writes @waronweakness yo lemme get in on this, where my VIPs at 🥲

How to build an audience on X: 1) Make a list of 100 accounts that have the audience you want. 2) Focus on comments under bigger accounts 3) Make a VIP group with 3-5 friends and agree to engage with each other's content everyday 4) Repeat until you hit 1k follows Bookmark ☝️

@dvassallo I’ve been a little shocked (in a good way), with how much this has worked on threads. Going to definitely start doing that here, too.

I discover most of the people I follow from replies under my tweets or under tweets of people I follow. Some rarely, if ever, post anything on their timeline, but the replies are still enough to form a connection. This is what I would focus on if I were to start over.

@davekinkead Nah mate this is the way imo. You’re just focussed on shipping value, so you can get that feedback loop going faster. Love this stuff.

4. Consume By now you might have a bit of a rough idea on the what, find some of the best sources of content to help complete the picture of what it might look like. If you find yourself endlessly consuming, you can stop, that’s probably the thing worth exploring more.

3. Chat with a coach or mentor Chatting through my situation with a coach throughout this process has been hugely beneficial. It’s helped me to test the waters for some early thinking and be reality checked. Little bit by bit you can narrow in on your path

@TWindscheffel is great at reinforcing the value of “stopping to start”, when it comes to software delivery. What I didn’t anticipate was just how valuable this idea was when reviewing your own career trajectory.

“Remote collaboration is harder”, of course it is, if you never spend time intentionally creating opportunities for remote staff to get to know each other in and around meetings, collaboration is absolutely going to suffer. #remotework

There’s a lot of push to get remote workers back in the office in the name of collaboration. Yet, most companies pushing this never put in the effort to create that sort of collaboration in a remote context to begin with.

I've been spending some time digging into Rom.rb internals and learning how to leverage its upsert command in an application. I've written a guide for how to write you own custom rom command and handle bulk upsert to boot. tinyurl.com/7bu7ev3d

Want to improve your team's decision-making and ability to ship faster? Check out my post on the importance of psychological safety engineering teams. #engineering #teamwork #leadership #agile #softwaredevelopment tinyurl.com/4tm3xz6s

@mark_barbs @alexdia25 Well, everything will be in their desired places after that with some luck.

Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.