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Fully prepared for the past

London
Joined March 2009
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Goals vs. systems.
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“What the hell is water?” It’s hard to understand a system that we are part of because we have blind spots, where we can’t see what we aren’t looking for, and don’t notice what we don’t notice. Source : FS.blog/tgmm
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My top 3 assumptions when the doorbell rings: 1. Murderer 2. The police telling me everyone is dead. 3. That book I ordered about positive thinking.
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"Words should be weighed, not counted." — Yiddish Proverb
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Distraction vs. discipline.
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My team stopped using story points a few months ago. The universe did not implode. We are still producing working software on a regular basis.
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The secrets are deceptively simple: - Consistency - Patience
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Writing unit tests for property getters
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Simplicity amplifies opportunity.
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“In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is.” — Yogi Berra
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A master carpenter in Iceland once told me that the difference between a master and journeyman is that the journeyman will use the “right tool for the job” while the master will sometimes use a hammer to drive in screws. I think about that sometimes.
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"You always have the option of having no opinion." — Marcus Aurelius
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every time I open my spice cupboard I’m like “my god, in 1350 I’d be an emperor”
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Visual Proverbs ↓
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Is it "for fucks sake" or "for fuck sake"? It's for a work email so it has to sound professional.
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The need for systems to function at scale seems to eventually blind people to (often better) solutions that cannot scale. The simplest example may be: dietary intervention will fix a huge range of health problems, but the solution that scales is drugs, often just palliative ones
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A JavaScript function returning `this` shall henceforth be known as a "selfie".
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Marcel Proust thought happiness came from artistic creativity and expression, but he was wrong happiness comes from dogs.
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For halloween I’ll be showing trick or treaters code I wrote 6 months ago.
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