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Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by JohnMakin »

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #40
JohnMakin wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have fought this battle for my entire career. The problem is, incentives are tough - often senior engineers on ops teams have built the system on duct tape and bubble gum, and have a very specific and unobtainable knowledge about all the quirks of it which frequently involve a ton of manual, esoteric shit to resolve without a lot of know-how. Part of how I’ve made myself useful as a consultant sometimes in my caree…

> Every situation is a snowflake. Yeah, I mean, I think this describes it. Ultimately the video had many thoughts and layers, starting with a charismatic lead who is proud or pretending to be proud about completely meaningless, arbitrary achievements and metrics trying to motivate his team for rejecting access requests. Then it goes on to this individual who just can't handle it. Which is relatable. I don't think I c…

Yea, this video is definitely relatable to a lot of people in a lot of ways and that’s what I love about these. They hit hard. For me particularly, I have trouble selling to stubborn management teams to delay projects just a tiny bit to allow refactoring or adjustments to automate time wasting shit, and I abhor toil to the core of my being - so I will often get into situations like this guy and be like “fuck it I’m fixing it myself.”

I’ve had similar failures as in this video, lol. As a leader and as an IC. It hits really hard. If you’re ever in this situation you have to either leave, or exact whatever measures you have to fix it. Or face inevitable burnout. Those are the only choices or you will go mad.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by lbotos »

titanomachy wrote: post #39
profsummergig wrote: post #38

"SaaSiroth" seems to be an inside joke. Anyone know what it points to? Also, please feel free to list other inside jokes in the video. I could see lots of potential ones, including the oil barrel.

SaaSiroth is a combination of the acronym SaaS meaning “software as a service”, and the “Sephiroth” of Jewish mysticism. The diagram on the front page and blackboard in the video is a representation of the Sephiroth, the Jewish Kabbalistic tree of life. It’s something to do with Jewish metaphysics and cosmogony, but it’s very esoteric, may you have better luck making sense of it than I! Instead of the “ten emanations…

I'm 99% sure they were referencing evangelion's use:

https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life

(which if you haven't watched it's strange but I think for most hackers you'd vibe with it)

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by pram »

mk12 wrote: post #24
swyx wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this signal the death of the passive aggressive "take this offline" for me also favorite comment "This video captures the absolute weirdness of millennials and zoomers inheriting the bureaucratic systems created by baby boomers"

I find it weird how so much generation discussion seems to skip gen x. I see references to boomer, millennial, and zoomer/gen z way way more often than gen x.

As a Genuine Millennial (1986) who works around a lot of Gen X, I don't really perceive much of a difference between us tbh.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by einichi »

el_cujo wrote: post #11
kratom_sandwich wrote: post #3

Piggybacking to recommend another video of his, "The Hustle", which is a fast-paced memefest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

"Microservices" will always be my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s&pp=ygUGa3JhemFt

this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

JohnMakin wrote: post #41
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every situation is a snowflake. Yeah, I mean, I think this describes it. Ultimately the video had many thoughts and layers, starting with a charismatic lead who is proud or pretending to be proud about completely meaningless, arbitrary achievements and metrics trying to motivate his team for rejecting access requests. Then it goes on to this individual who just can't handle it. Which is relatable. I don't think I c…

Yea, this video is definitely relatable to a lot of people in a lot of ways and that’s what I love about these. They hit hard. For me particularly, I have trouble selling to stubborn management teams to delay projects just a tiny bit to allow refactoring or adjustments to automate time wasting shit, and I abhor toil to the core of my being - so I will often get into situations like this guy and be like “fuck it I’m f…

Some other interesting thoughts I had about the video:

1. The team lead was somehow able to leave an impression of Matthew McConaughey from The Wolf of Wall Street so strongly, I don't know if that was intentional. The whole acting felt amazing actually in such a weird way...

2. The Slack sound effects, I assume this has to be traumatizing to everyone watching this video, right.

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by xarope »

el_cujo wrote: post #11
kratom_sandwich wrote: post #3

Piggybacking to recommend another video of his, "The Hustle", which is a fast-paced memefest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

"Microservices" will always be my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

for a few seconds I thought he was describing OAuth and OpenID... /j

Re: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

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Post by ryanrandom »

timetraveller26 wrote: post #23
AndrejSafundzic wrote: post #15

I wasn't involved in the process at all but I saw the creation of this video. I just want to say that I was mind-blown how much work these KRAZAM puts into their videos. Just the mural on the whiteboard took them multiple hours - and, that's for a few seconds of the video. Unbelievable how much love is put into something. And, it sounds weird but really touching to see creatives do something that they truly love.

I loved the Tree of Life reference, I want something like that printed out and put it next to my highly effective pyramid of success.

hunting for easter eggs, I found that https://www.saasiroth.com is an actual site and it contains the full manifesto. crazy.
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