I can only imagine.

Hang in there.

Reporting live: The field matches the sky almost perfectly.

Halftime at #TheFactory

Falcons up 14-10.

Shame I want to get back to Indy before too late tonight - this has been fun!

I _think_ I saw that on the drive in.

Based on the branded beer.

Still more fond of WKU’s water tower, tho.

Probably!

Longer on this here: getaxiomatic.com/show-and-tel...

Results: Highly effective at discovering how well someone works in a team. My hiring mistakes came from overruling this step for "impressive" work history.
Code is worthless if it can't be understood and explained. People are always the hard part. 🧵

Tradeoffs: Works best with folks who have code to show (side projects, open source). Less effective for people stuck in closed-source/NDA situations. It's "squishy" - no clear pass/fail like traditional tests.

This lets you check for understanding, decision-making rationale, and how they react to feedback. I've successfully done this with whole teams - great for seeing collaboration skills in action.

You can standardize with rubrics or go with vibes. Both work.

My solution: "Show and Tell" interviews.

Step 1: Ask candidates to bring code to the interview - code they love, hate, or have lying around. Even AI-generated code if they want.

Step 2: Talk about that code.

There is no Step 3.

Instead, let's screen for the HARD parts of software engineering:

- Can you understand and explain code?
- Can you defend your choices (without being an asshole)?
- Can you translate business context into code?
- Can you take feedback?
- Can you work through ambiguity?

The real challenge: candidates are already using AI to fake their way through coding interviews. Some tools are designed specifically for this. We're testing the wrong thing entirely.

I'm a self-taught dev with 20 years in software (IPOs, acquisitions, consulting). Taught at a coding bootcamp for 2 years. Watched people go from "what's a variable?" to landing engineering jobs. Anyone can write code - especially now with AI.

Handy, ain’t it? I once built an installable Mac “app” that was just Automator under the hood.

It managed email signatures in Mac Outlook.

Idosyncrasy.

US Congress quorum is a simple majority.

Some state legislatures - such as Texas and Indiana - require 2/3 attendance as quorum.

Godspeed!

My general rule of thumb is to do the opposite of whatever Palantir does.