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Mark Smalley

@marksmalley

Helping IT people understand service

Netherlands شامل ہوئے Aralık 2008
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Mark Smalley
Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
@Mintzberg141 As various people have been quoted as having said, we’ve already established what you are; now we’re just haggling over the price.
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Henry Mintzberg@Mintzberg141·
Prostitution is the indiscriminate sale of a cherished resource. Harvard sells to donors the admission of their children.
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@RealMikeRother Good question to ponder! I get the gist but I'd qualify it: a decision you learn from is part of an experiment. Tending to restrict it to conscious learning to qualify as an experiment.
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Mike Rother@RealMikeRother·
Could one say that every human decision is in fact an experiment?
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@mattberan No, make them managers instead. That'll teach them for stepping out of line.
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Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理@littleidea·
doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of practice
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Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
@rob_england And as a haiku: "Web services designed To be lightweight and scalable RESTful programming"
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Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
@rob_england ChatGPT: "REST is a way of designing web services that make them easy to build, maintain, and scale. It does this by separating the client from the server and using standard methods to access and manipulate resources. RESTful services are often used to create APIs."
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Roy Atkinson
Roy Atkinson@RoyAtkinson·
@marksmalley And the best mechanic’s feel I’ve ever seen was my old cycling partner Mark. Many times I saw him tighten a nut and say, “Click” as if he was a torque wrench. I often checked him with a torque wrench and never saw him off by more than a pound or two.
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Roy Atkinson@RoyAtkinson·
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself." - Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance @PatBlackstaffe
Patti Blackstaffe@PatBlackstaffe

#SaaS, #technologies - the quote below is as applicable to software as it is to motorcycles - is the experience satisfaction? Define satisfied >Delighted? >Freed? >Tranquil? “The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any othe…lnkd.in/gzBPbr58

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Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
@RoyAtkinson I used one of his examples in a presentation about quality and DevOps a few years ago: the need to have directly experienced the dynamics of a system before tinkering with it
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Roy Atkinson@RoyAtkinson·
@marksmalley Me too, Mark. For a time I worked with a guy who had been one of Pirsig’s students in Montana. Such a great story, especially for a motorcycle rider like me.
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Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
Saying a prayer for you
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Should have opened this a few decades ago
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Mark Smalley@marksmalley·
@VigilantGuy I now have a very exclusive Mouton Rothschild 1973 vinegar
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