charity.wtf
cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
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Ask and ye shall receive...this paper on "stop treating 'AGI' as the north star goal of AI research" is BRILLIANT. 🙌
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Oh wow, this was brilliant -- thank you!!!
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Oh... I thought that was what YOU were talking about, too. Thanks ☺️
*shakes the sleep out of her brain*
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AWWW, shucks! Mutual fan club here, for sure. 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🩷
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Like, "a human" could mean a two year old, a college student who grew up on the internet, an 80 year old who doesn't text...
I'm probably being overly literal here -- again -- but it just seems too loosey-goosey for me to reason about.
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My cousin works there now!!! I just learned!
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I think he is? 🤔
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Hey, I discovered your talks and writing a couple months ago, when I was doing a deep dive into some stuff around DEI, and I've been meaning to say thanks. It had a huge impact on me.
Thank you. 🙏
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Haha, love this. Makes a lot more sense in dance terms!
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I was reading a book last night that described the difference between "positional power" and "personal power".
Standing up in front of the class as a professor for the first time was positional power; earning her students' respect was personal power.
www.amazon.com/Power-Users-...
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"Ownership" comes with its own set of baggage and assumptions for a lot of people, come to think of it.
Terms are just terms, it's the practice that matters.
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I like that!
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Preach 🙌
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It's the only way to scale all the shit we have to stress about, lol
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💯
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(Can't let this moment pass without quoting Bunk from "The Wire", though -- "There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck" 🤣 -- always a risk!!)
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After I became a manager, I started to realize what a relief it is to have people on your team who feel personally accountable and on the hook for things.
It's one less thing you have to worry about, when you can trust someone else is already worrying about it. 💕
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Alright, bookmarked this video to watch over the weekend. That was quite a thread! Not sure I'm smart enough to understand cynefin tho 😉
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Right! I can tell Serena Williams is an amazing tennis player despite being bad at tennis myself.
Second, the Peter Principle is about promoting people into roles where skills that worked in their prior role aren't useful. It's situational, not about universal competence.
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Self awareness is the first step on the path to excellence 😉
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The world looks very different than it did when I wrote my first piece on the engineer/manager pendulum, in 2017, but it's more relevant and necessary than ever.
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I agree with this, btw. Although being a good engineer can help you be a good engineering leader. You don't have to be THE BEST, but it's an asset to be good.
In sociotechnical systems, there is precious little that is "just tech" or "just people". It's alllll connected.
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I am not sure how anyone could read what I said and have the takeaway be that I don't value leaders or leadership. 😅 I very much do -- and not just in form of management.
Some of the most important kinds of leadership are most effectively wielded by working engineers.
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It is exponentially harder to craft sociotechnical systems of the type I describe, where normal software engineers can move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand their systems, and move the business forward every day.
It is *easier* to build systems that rely on heroism and brilliance.
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You would not be the first to accuse me of being overly literal 😉
We can definitely agree that anyone who *self identifies* as a 10x engineer, and orients their identity around it, is all but certain to be a raging asshole and source of organization fuckery.
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This is true, or close enough to true; but there are also lots of companies out there that *never* change their teams or orgs, and they are fragile for a whole different set of reasons.
I don't take issue with your description of the problems, only your overly broad generalization ☺️
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Thank you, that means a lot 🥰
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> I think we have come to use “Senior Software Engineer” as shorthand for engineers who can ship code and be a net positive in terms of productivity, and I think that’s a huge mistake.
The visceral relief and professional vindication I feel when reading your work.
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Ah! TIL, but rings true.
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Same. 💜
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Honestly, that would make me feel a tiny sliver better about the world.
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Haha, well. In the US, the tax prep software lobby is powerful enough to distort public policy
Wish I was joking.
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Thank you!! 🥰 My goal for the past few years has been to turn out one piece of long form writing per month.
I'm not sure I've ever actually *met* that goal, but last year I got close....11 essays, I think?!
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Making assumptions....🤔🤔🤔 like the one about how people go into management because they aren't competent? Assumptions like that?
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Is your link to the Peter Principle meant to serve as proof for your claim that people enter management because they are incompetent?
You're going to need more than a work of satire to prove a claim like that, I'm afraid.
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SO TRUE
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ooohhhh, that's pretty mean and also not true.
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there is no point in pouring more energy down this drain 💔
i always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and engage in good faith.. but when people tell you who they are, believe them.
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well, thank you for making your convictions clear.
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i wrote it for a friend. he paid me $1k! i will be posting the full article to my own blog in a couple months :)
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indeed!!!
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catchy, i dig it!
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i wrote about this too, a few months ago :)
stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/31/g...
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thank you!! <3
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They'll be shit outta luck when that person leaves.
Hopefully sooner rather than later.