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My latest book is live and available now. This one is all about navigating the harsh realities of enterprise software projects, which claim to be "agile," but not really.
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Michael Callaghan
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Michael Callaghan
@walkingriver
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@ShaunMcKnight @SenorVito9 @ExMosPostingLs I was there when all this happened and you are absolutely correct. I was there for the dedication of the Boston Temple and it looked weird without its steeple. Pres. Hinckley wanted a six-spire temple with another floor, but compromised on the design in the end.
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Jim is incorrect on what happened with the Boston temple. The steeple didn’t come to be because of his cousin’s work with the town council over several years, as he stated. The Church built the temple without the spire while the challenge of the steeple denial was moving its way up through the courts. Ultimately the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of the LDS Church, and the steeple was built. Much different story.
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He’s totally a faithful member guys… just wants to have civil discussions with people, guys…
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@mcuban I’ve long been an advocate for test-driven government. Think TDD but for laws. Define your success criteria with objective metrics and a timeline. Should those objectives not be met, the law is automatically repealed. Put all bills on GitHub for public comment.
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You can’t jump to that conclusion in an AI world. We first have to clean things up so we have transparent data /pricing.
Then we can evaluate it.
And that was my point. Businesses, once they clean up their approach to benefits, can create a template for offering universal care for their own employees
Why couldn’t that model, if it works well , be copied ?
That’s not to say there aren’t challenges.
If I were writing the law, I would put Service Level Agreements , cost, outcomes, access, quality and more, that have to be met. And if they are not, the whole thing sunsets
It can then be revisited, if the numbers and outcomes can be met
One of the mistakes our politicians make too often, is that they don’t put SLAs, and other metrics and thresholds into a law.
My dad used to say “we don’t live in the world we were born into “
The same applies to many laws. They weren’t written for the world we live in. Most should have term limits
Heath Veuleman@HeathVeuleman
Let me start by saying: I’m not a billionaire. Clearly @mcuban knows how to allocate capital. I’ve long been a fan because he’s not just a disrupter, he’s a transformer. That’s one of the hallmarks if you’ve followed his work at all. I agree with a lot of what he’s uncovered in healthcare and support anyone serious about - even just - nudging the system in a better direction. Our current setup is no longer sustainable. This isn’t a political problem. This is a math problem. It will implode under its own weight. Entropy is real. Cycles are real. However, “universal anything” tends to produce universal nothing. I won’t wax too philosophical here, but this is a first-principles issue. Universality sounds romantic, even just. Counterintuitively, it almost always devolves into lower quality, higher costs, and artificial scarcity…along with the waste, fraud, and abuse we pretend won’t happen. Let’s talk mechanics (not mystical philosophy). Government is an idea, not a business. Whatever it wants administered is almost always contracted out to corporations. Most people live in an alternate reality about how government and bureaucracy actually function. Viewing this through politics or ideology will get your feelings hurt. Universal healthcare, for example, won’t be checks mailed from an office in DC. It would almost certainly be run by the handful of large payers that already specialize as government fiscal intermediaries - UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Centene, and the like. These companies answer to shareholders. And by “shareholders,” I largely mean boomers’ retirement accounts. The same cohort that are the biggest beneficiaries and highest utilizers of healthcare services. The universe (no pun intended) does have a sense of humor. I wrote about this here if you’re bored enough to continue reading: x.com/heathveuleman/…
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This experiment completed successfully. Qwen 3.5:9b loaded inside @claudeai read my entire manuscript, using skills I had provided, and gave me a thorough analysis of the book.
It took 11 hours 18 minutes to finish, but it worked. 😄
Michael Callaghan@walkingriver
Currently letting Claude Code do an editorial review on a novel I've been working on. Everything is running locally, through Ollama and Qwen 3.5:9b on a 16GB M1 MacBook Air. I expect it'll take hours, but I'm cool with that.
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Long-range estimates are often partly theater, partly a date already set, partly a real planning need. Refuse fake precision, not the conversation.
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Is there any way to turn off ESC to interrupt in @claudeai ? I can't tell you how many times I have accidentally interrupted a long running process because I thought my focus was another window. I've started minimizing the Claude window now, but then I can't watch its progress.
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Currently letting Claude Code do an editorial review on a novel I've been working on. Everything is running locally, through Ollama and Qwen 3.5:9b on a 16GB M1 MacBook Air. I expect it'll take hours, but I'm cool with that.
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What is your response if you are asked to estimate eight sprints before stories even exist?
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Developers speak complexity and risk. Leadership speaks timelines and budgets. Same work, two languages. It's up to the tech lead to manage that translation.
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This might be my new favorite bad review of one of my books.
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@chrisbbehrens I didn't teach how to program against ChatGBT directly. Granted, my book's description doesn't promise anything of the sort.
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When asked for a date, try: what we know, what we do not, a range if nothing changes, what we will flag early if it shifts. Early uncertainty beats surprise.
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It’s been running for about ten minutes now. What’s the likelihood of it finishing? M1 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM. I also have a small fan blowing across the laptop vents.
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"When will it be done?" is a fair question that needs an answer. Budgets and releases need dates. Honest and precise rarely coexist under uncertainty. Managing up is translation.
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When ceremonies survive budget cuts and test automation does not, you get long releases with a manual QA pile at the end. The math is predictable.
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AI for learning a new framework: net positive or net negative? I am net positive only if I explain the generated code out loud afterward. Which side are you on?
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Half the team on incidents for two days? Say it in review before someone asks why velocity dropped. Context reduces anxious polling.
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@chrisbbehrens I guess I should have put quotes around that. 😅
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I do not have imposter syndrome anymore. I have did I actually read that diff syndrome.
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