Underrated word: interlocutor

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/05/04/the…

'Vibes' is one of the great terms of our era. Not sure how we got by without it.

“The church” is a synecdoche in a way that “the synagogue” is not.

Yes, I can see your screen. But you’re still on mute.

'The radical idea that it is legitimate to apply software techniques and systems thinking to the operations domain.... is still radical.'

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One question I always like to ask myself in these situations is, 'Had I seen the classic when it was published, would I have recognized it as being as seminal?' Very often: not. Is it a bit like the Salganik et al study of hit songs (thanks Michael Bernstein) [science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…]?

Tired: Cybertruck
Wired: Cyberduck

Anytime I see the “something went wrong” error message from Twitter, I think to myself: “oh, you don’t know the half of it.”

I’ve thought about doing writeups on what the Office hardening work was like. A few stubborn folks working on hard problems, both technically and structurally.

It’s a difficult story to tell, and not mine to tell for most pieces of it. But I am proud to have been a part of it.

Both on the web and in real life, I accept all cookies.

Not sure what it says about me that in one of my Slack accounts, the reacji suggestions include👎 but not 👍

Rule Three: AVOID PREMATURE ENUMERATION. One of the perils of being numerate is the temptation to start chopping up numbers – computing ratios, rates of increase, means and variances – before we understand what they refer to.

Google should rerelease Google Wave.

The rules of computer programming D&D are pretty simple. Study Python or JS to be a fighter, SICP/Scheme to be a wizard, C to be a dwarf, Haskell to be an elf, Java to be a priest.

I miss the days when power buttons were toggle switches.