the fact that nobody says "I'll build my own java compiler" but plenty of people think they can build their own o11y that scales to their needs is something worth studying because both are of equal levels of complexity

That time they were warming up for another band who no one can remember because they blew them away.

Can’t believe Sharon’s voice is still as amazing..

Fuck... :(

Oh god.. and I had enough trouble getting anything done with Civ 7 dropping the other week :(

To be fair, it is still not scientifically proven that left-handed people do *not* go to hell..

But damn.. that sounds even worse than my math teacher..

Het ergste is dat het “maar” 15 uur was. Een stuk beter dan de 20/22 uur naar NL ☺️

I ran a startup that amongst other things deployed critical applications for customers.

I only tested in production, but spent (very) signification time on making that safe.

I am glad I am flying back to Australia tonight and won’t have to come back here for the foreseeable future.

Having him “help” build out infrastructure as critical as that is about as scary as anything I can imagine… 😟

My very much not very technical wife has been using Astro and it looks pretty good.

I have been doing this more and more lately.. Only adding some color and frills to section dividers.

Haha.. I need to be not just consistently, but also constantly reminded of this 🤣

This is exactly the stuff they should, but don’t, teach you at school. You are expected to just find this out by yourself or something..

"Building influence is a long game"

Exactly! That is so true. And as she mentioned it isn't just a long game in regards to your personal growth, but also in every new context, or a change in context.

You are never "done" :)

And again.. it was leading online guilds, especially in World of Warcraft, that taught me all about emotional intelligence about others.

I learned how to discern the emotional state of people only their text output in a chat. A skill that came very much handy a decade later during a pandemic :D

Confession time: As an undiagnosed neuro-divergent kid, I got into a *lot* of heated arguments with my parents. As in, a lot. What that did force me to do is what I started called "finding the space" for a lack of a better term.

Find time to think between receiving a stimulus and responding.

"Leaders hone their emotional intelligence"..

Boy.. did that take a lot of work.. like a lot :D

Oh damn.. she actually starts with recognising your own emotions. Exactly.. that is where everything starts.. EQ isn't just about other people.