Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

“We can put everything we know together… but it doesn’t tell us anything, except that something is wrong… the clues we are getting don’t give us a solution; they only show us how far-reaching the wrongness is.”

— Time Out of Joint, PKD

does anyone else need to resist the urge bag their own groceries or is that just me

When your product manager calls on you during stand-up but you've been fucking around all sprint

Honestly even internal org A/B human eval with a handful of people…. is a step up from what most orgs are doing 😭

This account is proud to sign the triple zero pledge:
- Zero forethought: We will never think about the consequences of our actions.
- Zero accountability: We will never acknowledge those consequences when they inevitably arise.
- Zero reflection: We will never learn from our mistakes.

One time, while we were switching a big chunk of a Fortune 500 company over to Shortcut, someone there said to me "You realize that there are like 8 people here who will lose their jobs if we fully switch off of Jira, right? They're going to fight this like hell."

I still think about that a lot.

A new lecture by architect Christopher Alexander from 1995, now shown for the first time. 90 minutes of philosophy in action, as he wrestles with complex issues on a real building site, and with questions from an audience of mostly students.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wP...

B2B software lifehack: the first person to announce a self-service initiative will immediately be promoted to Senior Director

how this enormously lorge company works -

contractor budget: more than I can spend (because they're all bad)
AWS budget: unlimited
FTE budget: "fight this tiger for a dollar"

we interrupt your hellfeed to bring you some nature

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(If you can get even passably good at estimation and planning, you will be almost a literal deity walking among humans.)

probably the closest thing to royalty i’m going to get on this beautiful app @berduck.deepfates.com

my boss crushes me in the shitposting department

in startups PMs are 85% project managers and 15% scope deciders

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