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Growing up, I hated this guy. Boring! Now, I can recognize writing talent.

We didn't need the hbs case study. There's rarely any general explanation for business success. You can make outsized money off the least scarce stuff, say coffee in the case of St…

How do you process people deal with yourselves? "Get teams to traction"? The sentences are so long, vague, and hyperbolic as to be meaningless. And yet, people in your caste respon…

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Brus, a good fraction, possibly the majority, of SWEs like it precisely for its obsessive focus on minute distinctions. Talking to customers is often a punishment. We don't want to…

30:08 "This means engineers can talk to users... stuff that's actually fun". Wow, he totally gets us. /s 31:09 He flubs the questioning. His first says "Raise your hand if 100% of …

Have you considered getting laid? Don't knock it til you try it.

In other news, natural selection still applies, even to smart primates in 2026.

I'm butt hurt that I'm five paragraphs in and still have no idea what the hypothesis is.

Let go, Luke. And the underoos too.

Useless without local/remote sync. Also kind of obvious is the preferability of composeable UNIX programs over heavily locked down monoliths, hardly calling for a Fred Brooks style…

All the time. Sometimes it does an absolutely bang-up job.

Absolute fire. Love how Deepseek tortoise shell can only be slowed, not killed.

I see what you did there. "Of course that's your contention. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'til …