Marina Nitze
@marinanitze.bsky.social
Co-author, Hack Your Bureaucracy & Crisis Engineering. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Register for Hallway Track 12 The Thing About COBOL today at 1pm ET!
Chat with Marianne Belloti, @histoftech.bsky.social, and @clivethompson.bsky.social in depth about the programming language people love to hate.
Free, Monday 2 June.
www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
Chat with Marianne Belloti, @histoftech.bsky.social, and @clivethompson.bsky.social in depth about the programming language people love to hate.
Free, Monday 2 June.
www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Register for Hallway Track 12 The Thing About COBOL today at 1pm ET!
Chat with Marianne Belloti, @histoftech.bsky.social, and @clivethompson.bsky.social in depth about the programming language people love to hate.
Free, Monday 2 June.
www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
Chat with Marianne Belloti, @histoftech.bsky.social, and @clivethompson.bsky.social in depth about the programming language people love to hate.
Free, Monday 2 June.
www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
The new “requests” feature on LinkedIn (“consulting requests” and “speaking requests”) is literally just spam, yes? Has anyone had a non-spam experience?
February 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The new “requests” feature on LinkedIn (“consulting requests” and “speaking requests”) is literally just spam, yes? Has anyone had a non-spam experience?
Reposted by Marina Nitze
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”
—Elie Wiesel
—Elie Wiesel
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”
—Elie Wiesel
—Elie Wiesel
Reading Redwall as an adult is a delightful, highly recommended escape.
January 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reading Redwall as an adult is a delightful, highly recommended escape.
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5 years ago, if you'd ask me: amy, should i let my kid's heart get broken by sea monkeys?
i would've said absolutely not!
now… yes. bring it on. the youth need to learn that people lie, lie blatantly, and with great vividness, and it's sad but at least it's not IMPORTANT.
i would've said absolutely not!
now… yes. bring it on. the youth need to learn that people lie, lie blatantly, and with great vividness, and it's sad but at least it's not IMPORTANT.
January 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
5 years ago, if you'd ask me: amy, should i let my kid's heart get broken by sea monkeys?
i would've said absolutely not!
now… yes. bring it on. the youth need to learn that people lie, lie blatantly, and with great vividness, and it's sad but at least it's not IMPORTANT.
i would've said absolutely not!
now… yes. bring it on. the youth need to learn that people lie, lie blatantly, and with great vividness, and it's sad but at least it's not IMPORTANT.
I honestly cannot think of a place I would rather work (besides my own company).
Can you slap around CloudFormation?
Do you long to implement AWS optimizations at scale? (seek therapy)
Do you want to work fully remote?
Consider The Duckbill Group!
$175K a year. Details here. (I’m hiring for multiple roles under this description)
careers.duckbillgroup.com/apply/CcljKG...
Do you long to implement AWS optimizations at scale? (seek therapy)
Do you want to work fully remote?
Consider The Duckbill Group!
$175K a year. Details here. (I’m hiring for multiple roles under this description)
careers.duckbillgroup.com/apply/CcljKG...
FinOps Engineer (Full Time) - The Duckbill Group - Career Page
Apply to FinOps Engineer (Full Time) at The Duckbill Group in Remote.
careers.duckbillgroup.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I honestly cannot think of a place I would rather work (besides my own company).
You can remove Gemini from Gmail, Google Docs and the like (at least in a paid account) by chatting support and requesting Admin > Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace have the options to turn it off, turned on. Then you will have individual toggles:
January 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You can remove Gemini from Gmail, Google Docs and the like (at least in a paid account) by chatting support and requesting Admin > Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace have the options to turn it off, turned on. Then you will have individual toggles:
Reposted by Marina Nitze
Our new Harvard Business Review piece digs into big improvements in customer service at the California DMV
New boss Steve Gordon visited all 180 field offices (50,000 miles on his car!), which "fueled" employee trust, and lessons on problems and solutions #frictionproject
hbr.org/2024/11/mana...
New boss Steve Gordon visited all 180 field offices (50,000 miles on his car!), which "fueled" employee trust, and lessons on problems and solutions #frictionproject
hbr.org/2024/11/mana...
Management By Driving Around
In 2019, California Governor Newsom hired veteran technology executive Steve Gordon to transform the troubled DMV: to increase online services, improve service at field offices, and bolster employee m...
hbr.org
November 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Our new Harvard Business Review piece digs into big improvements in customer service at the California DMV
New boss Steve Gordon visited all 180 field offices (50,000 miles on his car!), which "fueled" employee trust, and lessons on problems and solutions #frictionproject
hbr.org/2024/11/mana...
New boss Steve Gordon visited all 180 field offices (50,000 miles on his car!), which "fueled" employee trust, and lessons on problems and solutions #frictionproject
hbr.org/2024/11/mana...
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Executive overreach for student loan forgiveness causes the left to lose moral authority over future executive overreach by other administrations.
I see politicians of all stripes only willing to call foul when the outcome is something they don't like. That's dangerous.
I see politicians of all stripes only willing to call foul when the outcome is something they don't like. That's dangerous.
April 14, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Executive overreach for student loan forgiveness causes the left to lose moral authority over future executive overreach by other administrations.
I see politicians of all stripes only willing to call foul when the outcome is something they don't like. That's dangerous.
I see politicians of all stripes only willing to call foul when the outcome is something they don't like. That's dangerous.
Reposted by Marina Nitze
If you don’t make a point to learn your janitor’s name, you are a bad person. You should, in fact, be making sure some donuts are saved for the janitorial staff. If there are not enough donuts, buy extra.
March 13, 2024 at 1:52 AM
If you don’t make a point to learn your janitor’s name, you are a bad person. You should, in fact, be making sure some donuts are saved for the janitorial staff. If there are not enough donuts, buy extra.
The video camera drones covering this NFL game really need little windshield wipers.
January 21, 2024 at 1:23 AM
The video camera drones covering this NFL game really need little windshield wipers.