Andy Fleener
@andyfleener.bsky.social
Humanist, Systems Thinker, Safety Nerd, Senior Director of Platform and Data Engineering at Total Expert, Devopsdays MSP Organizer, Chaos Engineering Book Contributor, he/him
Happy put your snow-brush in the car day to all those who celebrate.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy put your snow-brush in the car day to all those who celebrate.
Weirdly reminded today of just how impactful the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was to my youth. Good art makes you feel something, great art makes impact, and that album was a masterpiece front to back.
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Weirdly reminded today of just how impactful the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was to my youth. Good art makes you feel something, great art makes impact, and that album was a masterpiece front to back.
OH: "I'm very meme'y"
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
OH: "I'm very meme'y"
“I’m not getting something I need” “Have you tried asking for it?” “Hmm that seems like a good idea.”
a cartoon rabbit with a surprised look on its face and the words oh wow
Alt: a cartoon rabbit with a surprised look on its face and the words oh wow
media.tenor.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“I’m not getting something I need” “Have you tried asking for it?” “Hmm that seems like a good idea.”
OH: "bro communicating with ur coworkers is pretty cool"
August 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
OH: "bro communicating with ur coworkers is pretty cool"
Been reflecting on the role Toxic individualism plays in corporate culture. Some pretty significant signals - Meetings are seen as a negative thing - conversations are shut down because they're taking to much time - squeaky wheel gets the grease - Command and Control is the soup du jour. What else?
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Been reflecting on the role Toxic individualism plays in corporate culture. Some pretty significant signals - Meetings are seen as a negative thing - conversations are shut down because they're taking to much time - squeaky wheel gets the grease - Command and Control is the soup du jour. What else?
Wow I haven't felt the urge to subtweet this hard in awhile. Fucking hell.
June 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Wow I haven't felt the urge to subtweet this hard in awhile. Fucking hell.
Fucking hell. Leadership can be incredibly fulfilling and draining all at the same time. Like simultaneously some of the most impactful work and some of the most difficult work I have ever done.
February 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fucking hell. Leadership can be incredibly fulfilling and draining all at the same time. Like simultaneously some of the most impactful work and some of the most difficult work I have ever done.
Happy Wednesday, I just broke my glasses for the second time in 10 days 😔 so that's how my day is going.
January 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Wednesday, I just broke my glasses for the second time in 10 days 😔 so that's how my day is going.
Does the binary nature of "What went well" and "What didn't go well" annoy anyone else? It's been awhile since I've gotten into a fight about how Mechanistic Reasoning is hiding in our mental models so much that we don't even realize they're hiding in there.
November 26, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Does the binary nature of "What went well" and "What didn't go well" annoy anyone else? It's been awhile since I've gotten into a fight about how Mechanistic Reasoning is hiding in our mental models so much that we don't even realize they're hiding in there.
You sit on a throne of Lies!
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM
You sit on a throne of Lies!
Also hi new followers, happy to see a space that feels like old tech twitter again. Not sure how much I will engage in it because *gestures at the general state of the world* but it feels good that it's here.
November 18, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Also hi new followers, happy to see a space that feels like old tech twitter again. Not sure how much I will engage in it because *gestures at the general state of the world* but it feels good that it's here.
Ah the classic "it can't be that hard". Nothing screams I have no idea what you do or how you do it than "it can't be that hard".
a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
Alt: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Ah the classic "it can't be that hard". Nothing screams I have no idea what you do or how you do it than "it can't be that hard".
Sad to see corporate policies erase years of work in OSS. I guess we should have been more prepared but damn like that's some bullshit to just kill a project and not tell anyone associated with it.
September 4, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Sad to see corporate policies erase years of work in OSS. I guess we should have been more prepared but damn like that's some bullshit to just kill a project and not tell anyone associated with it.
8 1 on 1s in a single day. 😅 And people wonder how I keep a pulse on the organization.
May 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM
8 1 on 1s in a single day. 😅 And people wonder how I keep a pulse on the organization.
"the systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another" Who doesn't need a microdose of Existentialism on a Friday morning 😂 harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/a...
April 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
"the systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another" Who doesn't need a microdose of Existentialism on a Friday morning 😂 harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/a...
A sign of a good manager is that they read through what you're saying and ask deeper questions to find out more. This is true for both what you're excited about and what is bothering you. And if you're midwestern, when you say everything is fine. They seek to understand and find common ground.
April 2, 2024 at 2:53 PM
A sign of a good manager is that they read through what you're saying and ask deeper questions to find out more. This is true for both what you're excited about and what is bothering you. And if you're midwestern, when you say everything is fine. They seek to understand and find common ground.
I am going absolutely ape shit over this CNCF whitepaper on Platforms. It's like they took everything we've been building at Total Expert over the last 3 years and turned into a whitepaper. It's validation of what we've been doing is insane: tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/...
CNCF Platforms White Paper
This paper intends to support enterprise leaders, enterprise architects and platform team leaders to advocate for, investigate and plan internal platforms for cloud computing. We believe platforms significantly impact enterprises' actual value streams, but only indirectly, so leadership consensus and support is vital to the long-term sustainability and success of platform teams. In this paper we'll enable that support by discussing what the value of platforms is, how to measure it, and how to implement platform teams that maximize it.
tag-app-delivery.cncf.io
February 7, 2024 at 10:20 PM
I am going absolutely ape shit over this CNCF whitepaper on Platforms. It's like they took everything we've been building at Total Expert over the last 3 years and turned into a whitepaper. It's validation of what we've been doing is insane: tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/...
For the morning crowd
I'm excited to announce devopsdays Minneapolis is back for 2024 August 6th-7th!
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devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
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February 7, 2024 at 4:57 PM
For the morning crowd
I'm excited to announce devopsdays Minneapolis is back for 2024 August 6th-7th!
devopsdays.org/events/2024-...
devopsdays.org/events/2024-...
devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
devopsdays Minneapolis 2024
devopsdays.org
February 7, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I'm excited to announce devopsdays Minneapolis is back for 2024 August 6th-7th!
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Leadership is wild. You can just make someone’s good idea become a priority and let them work on it. 🙃 The bar is so fucking low holy shit.
January 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Leadership is wild. You can just make someone’s good idea become a priority and let them work on it. 🙃 The bar is so fucking low holy shit.
No Brians, I don’t want to schedule a call to talk about how your product I’ve never heard of can help me do things I’m already doing. Seriously are they all named Brian? Feels like a conspiracy.
December 15, 2023 at 3:25 PM
No Brians, I don’t want to schedule a call to talk about how your product I’ve never heard of can help me do things I’m already doing. Seriously are they all named Brian? Feels like a conspiracy.
I didn't realize Loki season 2 was about backlog grooming.
November 21, 2023 at 3:59 PM
I didn't realize Loki season 2 was about backlog grooming.
This might sound cynical, but it really isn’t. I played way too much poker in college, like easily hundreds of hours at a poker table. I had no idea how much that would prepare me for the corporate world. Intuition in reading people is an insanely valuable skill.
November 15, 2023 at 11:54 PM
This might sound cynical, but it really isn’t. I played way too much poker in college, like easily hundreds of hours at a poker table. I had no idea how much that would prepare me for the corporate world. Intuition in reading people is an insanely valuable skill.
What % of leadership is based on intuition?
November 13, 2023 at 4:48 PM
What % of leadership is based on intuition?