Thoughtful / neurotic. I work on raising kids at my house, and on raising software at GitHub.
Joined December 2008
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Josh Schultz retweeted
Happiness, ability, fulfillment, self-esteem... are their own justifications.
No, Montessori doesn't design her educational approach for "whatever gives a child pleasure."
But it is designed to unlock work, learning, *human life and growth* as the *highest* pleasure.
Josh Schultz retweeted
Yes. Word processing is bad.
Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau.
After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.
Josh Schultz retweeted
My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm
Josh Schultz retweeted
I feel attacked
ALT A man looking at a book called "how to stop stressing about tasks". In it, it says "complete the task". Tears start falling from the man's eyes
Josh Schultz retweeted
Good: leave something to get you hooked on the next day.
But who can just start at next sentence w/o re-establishing context? I can't.
Instead, I'd promise myself to "just read" what I'd written the previous day, which would hook me right back into the flow.
Josh Schultz retweeted
As a fourth year I had a rotation with a kick-ass intern. She was ON IT. Communicating, checking tasks off, teaching, following up on everything, etc.
I told her how amazing she was and she said “thank you, I’m trying *really* hard.” 1/
Josh Schultz retweeted
Fun fact: I have told Ops teams before to tune-down their security requirements.
Either they would not impede actual attackers, would be actively counter-productive, or take IT time away from improvement work.
That's Security as a profession. Not turning everything to maximum!!!
Josh Schultz retweeted
The concept of billions of people having a camera/videocamera in their pocket, documenting everything (and uploading much of it to a global superbrain), is only a decade old. We live in crazy times.
Josh Schultz retweeted
Being part of the Shopify layoff sucks but I’m looking forward to what comes next. Hit me up if you’re looking for an engineering director who people actually like and helps teams force-multiply.
Josh Schultz retweeted
Super detailed written user stories are a sign your team is not collaborating.
Josh Schultz retweeted
Anyone with an astigmatism (like me 👋) will have a hard time pairing with you because text looks fuzzier on a dark screen with an astigmatism
Josh Schultz retweeted
Programming teaches you to see problems from the bottom up. But the rest of the world happens from the top down, and that is the problem.
Josh Schultz retweeted
X : Our project to bring our system on AWS in-house has been a financial success.
Me : Excellent. Can I see the figures?
....
Me : Where's power, aircon cost, buildings?
X : Those are provided by the data centre.
Me : But you're paying for those elsewhere ...
Josh Schultz retweeted
The ideal long term solution often looks different than the feasible tactical solution right now. When people wonder what engineers do all day if they aren't working on visible changes, they are trying to connect the dots from tactical solutions to the more ideal ones.
Josh Schultz retweeted
Engineering in a nutshell. Got my ass kicked by some stupid software today how about you 😂
Josh Schultz retweeted
When your architectural work makes a difference,
show it in your data, and rejoice!
Make a big deal out of it, as marketing does for features.
Speaking in business cases is the biggest difference between senior and staff engineers in many companies.
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