I have so many special memories of my time there. 😢💔

I wrote a long and rambling post on why the hierarchy is bullshit (and bad for business). Includes digressions on * the big lie of hierarchy (higher is always better) * why hierarchy endures as a data structure * why it sucks (we imbue it with dominance) charity.wtf/2022/09/23/the…

Can 75 more tech people follow me so my friends can stop taunting me about about my follower count?? 🙏

My first year, as an engineering manager, I’d try to collect as much data I could about what people did. Spent ~6-8 hrs per person writing perf reviews, trying to make sure I didn’t miss a thing, working through weekends. It was exhausting. Then I made a change (cont’d):

The last three years, explained

R35/hr

We're at it again - City of Cape Town's data science branch is hiring! Come help us apply advanced analytics to the benefit of **all** our residents. Please share widely!

The best startup advice used to be "ignore competitors; just make something people want." These days it seems like everyone is obsessed with moats and market structures and the behavior of incumbents. Seems like we've gone too far. Just make something people want.

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"Promises pile up like debt, and they accrue interest, too. The longer you wait to fulfill them, the more they cost to pay off and the worse the regret. When it’s time to do the work, you realize just how expensive that yes really was." Full article: world.hey.com/jason/promise-…

“I want to build things for people” 💯

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"It's supposed to be bad because it's version 1" is a bankrupt take on anything. If your version 1 is bad, that's the company's fault, not the version number's fault. My comments aren't about any product in particular, they are about any and all products in general. Version 1

An argument for logging off. aaronfrancis.com/2024/an-argume…

On healthy product teams, designers and programmers are peers, not adversaries on separate sides. Just two arms of the same being making something together.

When you have little ones in the house and your Apple All Time playlist captures their journey from The Wiggles to AURORA and Mitski.