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I appreciate the clarity and correction offered!

Big fan of Will Larson's book. I once recommended it to an Eng director I worked under who had foisted 5 reorgs in four years on his team, and had proposed a sixth. I didn't last l…

I thought the KBA was an amendment to US statutory law, not an 'agreement' between nations? What are the other laws and agreements to which you're alluding to, but weren't referenc…

Which the article indicates, at least as it relates to the US and her companies, is no longer the case: > In July 2020, the KBA was dropped, and now the US government allows Americ…

So the whole "quitting smoking" thing was...a happy coincidence? Did you go cold turkey? What were the nicotine withdrawal nightmares like? I had fierce ones when I quit

Ninja edit: Anyone else find it crazy the value went from $100k in 2017 to $259k in 3 years? Absolute insanity to go up $160k in three years. You should take a look at the Austin T…

I thought this sounded familiar and had to Google things and because I initially thought this was the same person I read about in 2020 who had this happen to them. Instead it was t…

>When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like. To be completely honest, I don't care what the reporter looks like…

There are a lot of really interesting assumptions and projections being made about a number of classes of people going on in this mindset. But okay. Thanks for clarifying and shari…

When you put it like that...I still think the strip club comparison was weird because I can think of at least one other other common and far less contentious career-path with an in…

Love the coincidence of laying on my couch watching LGR on a Friday night at the very moment that I find a comment on HN talking about LGR.

Willful ignorance?

I've been having this problem with push notifications for quite a few apps, but Slack just seems to genuinely do whatever the hell it wants, regardless of whatever I've set prefere…

I like that dichotomy. If you or anyone else reading this have any thoughts on it, what are some good questions I ought to be asking during interviews to determine what kind of sho…

See that makes sense, perhaps it make too much sense. My last two jobs I fought the same battles of "I discovered x, we really should do something about it because it can have real…

I actually did not miss that part, but thanks for calling it out regardless. The question was instead borne out of curiosity as to know how the follow up and subsequent discussions…

I see. Maybe I'm overthinking it (this happens sometimes, I'm working on it), but waiting around for a security crisis to happen when a solution is in sight, even when facing diffi…

How do the conversations typically go when asked "did you know this could happen"/"did we see this coming" or has no one bothered to ask that question yet during the RCA process?

I don't know what Basecamp's books look like, I don't have the clairvoyance to know what they will look like in the future.. humor a speculative question for a moment: would the "b…

I think we may have differing ideas as to what "DEI" work consists of; because to your response, that work sounds like the typical duties of an HR officer in collaboration with cor…

Yes. I read that. And what I am flatly pondering is what that "responsibility" could possibly consist of, if the topics inherent to DEI are now not to be had at basecamp.

So is the DEI officer currently on staff going to cease being a DEI officer and just 'stick to HR' stuff, if politics and topics adjacent are out the window?

Ah ok, perhaps I fixated on the curt "I disagree", for a moment too long.

Couldn’t possibly be a confluence of all the above? Not even in the tiniest degree?