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rands.bsky.social
Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t tweet about my current gig. https://randsinrepose.com
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Leadership is the art of telling someone else how to win.

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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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Today’s stupid robot trick. Replacing an LED in the office. Took a picture of the bulb, and ChatGPT correctly identified it. Went to the supply store and stared at a WALL of bulbs uselessly for (5) minutes.

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Management is a total career restart: randsinrepose.com/archives/a-d...

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An introvert’s ability to hide in plain sight is only surpassed by our ability to absorb every single thing you are missing.

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A good Gantt chart might tell a story, but never a schedule.

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Trust the ones who tell you the uncomfortable truth.

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Being humble means you're aware how quickly shit goes bad.

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Name a movie that got vastly better eight years later because of the release of a TV series that wasn’t even about the main character. That’s a compliment for Andor, not Rogue One.

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A well-prepared interviewer makes for a very good interview: refactoring.fm/p/how-to-man...

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Open tabs are not a to-do list.

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Nice job TSwizzle: apnews.com/article/tayl...

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I miss Elon.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In the absence of information, people make shit up.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I think we, as a species, prefer stories to facts.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

All horrible travel stories start with a random minor, ignorable annoyance at the airport that turns into a multi-day tire fire from which you can not escape.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty sure I just added multi-user database-backed support to this React app by typing "Please add multi-user support."

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Your ability to surreptitiously add me to your mailing list will never exceed my ability to mark you as spam.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Code I have not written in the past month: weather checker, watch watching script, finance tracking scripts, NHL stats checker, tool to explore my tweet corpus, updated .zshrc, script to check git status, tool to look up town populations, and email scanner.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Busy isn't a sign of your importance, it's a sign of your inefficiency.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

If you think you need an exclamation point, you're probably missing a word.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Second season of Andor was a narrative work of art. No light sabers, no Skywalkers, no Jedi. Just regular humans in awful circumstances trying to do their best. I clapped at the end. At my TV.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Finishing. It's how you win.

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There are lots of ways to say no, but I prefer "no".

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When you say ""Sense of urgency,"" I hear ""Please go faster doing this thing you do that I don't understand.""

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How trust is eroded. The familiar version. You set a deadline. No one hits it for apparently good reasons. Next time, you set a fake-to-you deadline knowing that they’re all going to be late for apparently good reasons.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Every layer of leadership you add increases cost and complexity with commensurate decreases in individual productivity.

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Yeah, I thought I was done with Poker Face until I saw this: youtu.be/bHMxA5Ipcf0?...

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Watching the couple sit across from me, they’ve been here for over an hour, smiling, laughing… at their phones.

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Bored people quit: randsinrepose.com/archives/bor...

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In the post-Twitter world, based entirely on my own observations (and the humans I hang out with), Mastodon and BlueSky appear to have both legs. In terms of engagement, Threads has dropped way off in the last two months.

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Day 2 of Doom Dark Ages. It’s growing on me. Don’t ask a lot from it. You’ll be fine.

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Your issue is not with JIRA, your issue is with inefficient busy work.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Three topics guaranteed to generate disproportionate drama: comp changes, title changes, and where they sit.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Prune as well as you build.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Never underestimate the lengths they'll go to cover their asses.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The further you are from a problem, the easier the solution appears.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I promise you. If you haven’t attempted to build your random code/project/thing in ChatGPT or Claude, then you are vastly underestimating the value. Do not trust what folks are telling you; build something yourself. You’re welcome.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

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Being early is not a crime.

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