Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class. 0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings. 2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.

Thanks for the first lol of my morning

Useful thread

Great story!

Really nicely said!

You know that decision / conversation / action that your dreading, but you already know that once it's done, you'll think "what a relief that at least it's over?" Do it today. You'll incur the pain regardless. So why drag out the dread as well?

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An *only in NYC* scenario … with the press lined up outside the Manhattan DA’s office awaiting grand jury action in the Trump case, a block away, a crew is filming an episode of Law & Order SVU

The biggest secret of influencing people is to make it their idea, not yours. This appears to take slightly more time than pushing your idea & asking them for their feedback. And it takes a lot more skill with asking great questions. But it creates fantastic buy-in. Just magic.

ISO guidance for screening great senior front-end / client-side app developers. Folks, Have you hired a great senior front-end / client-side app developer lately, or are you one? If so, any guidance you can share on a useful rubric to help assess?

A system is never the Sum of its Parts. It is the *Product* of its Interactions. — Russell Ackoff

This perfectly captures the fallacies of the “polarization” narrative: What is depicted here isn’t polarization, and describing it as such obscures rather than illuminates what’s actually the problem - the escalating anti-democratic radicalization of the Republican Party.

“Most organisations are by nature complex adaptive systems where needs and requirements entangle with identities, cultural practices, personal preferences and values, challenging and interpreting even the most strict rules and procedures to give result to unpredictable outcomes.”

15/ the Compact Muon Solenoid detector

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Of course you're always making trade-offs: product, design, brand, prioritization, target customer, target market. Question: Do you write down what they are, and which way you're deciding? So that you're sure you're not self-contradictory? P.S. Now you have a strategy.

No one needs to write life advice blog posts in tech anymore. Glad to announce I’ve solved it

Only in DC: doing a live hit for CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil outside the federal courthouse on Pence’s grand jury testimony and @BradleyWhitford strolls by Penn Ave. in a suit on the phone. For a second, wanted to ask him about how the Bartlet WH is going to respond…

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