lots of people mocking the guy who lost his code because a cursor agent overwrote it. not enough people asking why we don't have the agents auto-branch and auto-commit. (we should both teach source control and simultaneously re-imagine what agentic software engineering means)

Best thing I've read today from "Systems Thinking" by Donella Meadows, and lots of applications in business.

Once a business has the basics down, many problems are a lack of resilience: sales collapsing, talent pipeline problems, difficulty raising capital, etc. Easy to mistake luck for resilience.

Leaders don't fail at goal-setting because they pick the wrong framework. They fail because setting real goals is deeply uncomfortable, and they unconsciously sabotage themselves.

I know this because in 2019, I caught the OKR bug and learned some things the hard way, like:

Leaders don't fail at goal-setting because they pick the wrong framework. They fail because setting real goals is deeply uncomfortable, and they unconsciously sabotage themselves.

I know this because in 2019, I caught the OKR bug and learned some things the hard way, like:

Overheard in a gym bathroom today: a manager having a comp conversation with their employee. (Employee didn't get much of a bonus this year, but manager acknowledged he worked really hard! Much bigger bonus next year.)

Seriously, just tell your employee you're running five minutes late.

It's a good thing we didn't collectively give up on end to end encryption a few years ago...

What’s everybody reading right now and why?

This is such a superior experience for adding cards to Apple Wallet that I can’t believe it took so long for Apple to ship it.

The breathless praise for AI app generation tools (v0, Bolt, etc) do a disservice to their capability. 1) Building anything of substance using them has a lot of bumps, but more importantly 2) they are GREAT for prototyping where bumps matter less. The latter rarely comes up but is a huge benefit.

The first time we told my dad he wasn’t going to get a new heart, we were sitting on our patio.

“The doctors decided you aren’t a good candidate for a transplant,” our choreographed explanation abruptly ended. Speaking these words out loud only intensified our sadness.

He swore, then sobbed...

This works surprisingly well. Does everyone else here just know about this?

is there any automated way to find Twitter connections who are also here?