Imagine a picture of three overlapping circles. One says enlightenment, one says Buddhism, one says China. A Zen diagram.

my main problem with discord replacing reddit/forums is that if i have a problem with my router, i don’t wanna go join the router club and talk to router guys about it. i just wanna read a thread from 8 months ago where someone figured it out

3. Have a developed habit of working & problem solving in public. Team members leave breadcrumbs of what they are working on & show first drafts for early feedback or to mark progress. Because communication happens in an open forum there are fewer silos & surprises across teams.

BREAKING: Florida bans programming books that mention race conditions.

Instead of asking me why I keep spilling water on your chair, perhaps you should ask yourself why you keep putting your water right where I need to stand

BREAKING: The BBC declares war on Italy

So, it is a terrible idea to use story points to measure productivity. Just terrible. Full stop. But the people I need to persuade of this are all fearful low level managers who feel they must prove themselves and are constantly asked to demonstrate progress.

Toddlers are masters of the Jack Sparrow walk.

This was a really effectively delivered emotional crescendo and yet it's such a simple and silly line! What a film.

If a definition of “game” requires dismissing obvious cases like Candyland and War as “activities, not games”, so much the worse for that definition. They are useful examples to show that choice is not essential. (That said, definitions can be useful even if not comprehensive.)

People: We must separate the art from the artist! The British Empire: Say no more

One of the most beloved free-to-use photos in the Library's collection is of Brünnhilde, for obvious reasons. We're happy to report that 2023 comes with a freshly digitized photograph of Brünnhilde from another angle. 😻 More of our free-to-use photos: go.loc.gov/mlqO50MhxCu

My Food Disgust Sensitivity is low (25.88%). idrlabs.com/food-disgust/2… via IDRlabs

@jduffyrice One thing I think people who don't have kids should know is that parents really *can * control if their babies' cry and actually we really like it when they do and if they stop for even a moment we try to get them to start again.

hilariously, two business bros tried to do exactly this with knitting a couple years ago. they knew nothing about knitting, but they had a 150K+ budget. they bought knitting dot com for 80K. they meant to be a 8 figure brand within a year. knitting fandom ATE THEM ALIVE.