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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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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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“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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every time I open my spice cupboard I’m like “my god, in 1350 I’d be an emperor”
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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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Email Reply xkcd.com/1873/ m.xkcd.com/1873/
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Marcel Proust thought happiness came from artistic creativity and expression, but he was wrong happiness comes from dogs.






















