Recovering Enterprise Developer. Oracle free for over 12 months. Just a geek.
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Thomas James retweeted
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Thomas James retweeted
(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.
Well, I have good news.
Thomas James retweeted
Just a reminder that all bug prioritisation schemes in practice degenerate to three scheduling categories: do it now, do it later, never do it.
If you have a numbered system with many priority levels, what you actually have is a bureaucratic system of denial.
Thomas James retweeted
Perhaps it was inevitable...but now the spot market for electricity for eastern Australian has been suspended by @AEMO_Energy . (H/T @dylanjmcconnell )
Thomas James retweeted
Fastest way to kill your business?
Taking on the wrong clients.
Here are 15 client red flags you must learn to spot:
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Thomas James retweeted
Paths Open vs. Closed
Black Lines = paths closed
Green Lines = paths open
We spend too much time focusing on what might have been (black) and not enough time focusing on what may be (green).
Never underestimate the density of opportunity that lies ahead.
(h/t @waitbutwhy)
Thomas James retweeted
Worried about the cost of living and rising electricity bills?
See why AEMO's Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) report released today shows PM's plan to keep coal power stations running "as long as they possibly can" guarantees more unreliable and expensive power🧵#auspol
Thomas James retweeted
Software engineering: 50% understanding requirements, 40% complexity management, 9% debugging, 1% solving "interesting" algorithmic problems.
You'll enjoy software engineering a whole lot more if you instead think of the first 99% as the interesting part.
Thomas James retweeted
Your managerial investment priorities:
Retention > Onboarding > Hiring
This is in contrast to popular wisdom that hiring is the most important thing you should work on
Thomas James retweeted
The question I found most impactful to ask when I get a document to review is
What kind of feedback would you like me to give?
Thomas James retweeted
Um this doesn't look like learning
crikey.com.au/2022/05/23/big…
Thomas James retweeted
In the last 5 years, we’ve paid $3.9 million in profit sharing to the ConvertKit team.
While most companies hope to return money to shareholders in a moonshot acquisition, we’ve created a unique model to help our team think like owners.
Here’s how our compensation model works:
Thomas James retweeted
Enough with the two-party talk! The Labor Party 👉AND👈 Independents 👉AND👈 Greens defeated Scott Morrison’s Coalition. This is the headline. This is the new multi-party political landscape Australians have voted for, instead of the 2-party ping-pong game we’ve been told to play
Thomas James retweeted
Don’t be afraid to let your audience to buy from you.
YouTube pays most Creators
$0.001 per view
TikTok pats $0.00001 per view.
Meanwhile you could have 1 tee shirt make $8 profit on a single sale.
Or $50-$100 on a single digital download.
Or $200-$600 on a course sale.
