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Are you in sf this Thursday, 10/4? We are having a happy hour for friends and family with show & tell by @nota_bennett on how Pivotal uses Honeycomb! RSVP to @honeycombio for the address and details.
Speaking of meatspace! I am in NYC Monday-Tuesday, Seattle on Weds. If any of you are thinking of using honeycomb and would like a visit, tech talk, demo, or just a chill Q&A with your team, hit me up. I can probably fit in one more each Mon/Weds.

actually.. email monika@...
.. Yeah please send email to Monika at honeycomb dot io and cc charity@, instead of Twitter DMs.

giving the EA thing another shot, I drop soooo many balls these days and it's worst when I'm traveling. Basically every part of my being rejects routine and structure. wheeee..
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btw ... going from line manager (managing engineers) to director (managing managers) is almost as much of a career change as going from engineer to manager.

you will suck at your job again, and you will have to rewire your brain's reward mechanisms again.
the metaphor i use is, as an engineer you get to use your hands to build a ship. as manager, you walk along the pier coaching and lending a hand.

as a director, you get a mission ("build 2x larger ships!") and a rusty fishing rod to wave at the managers to convey what you want.
almost all line managers rely on their personal charisma or subject authority to get their team to do things in some unique and unreplicable way.

once you become a director, you can't lean on instinct. what worked for you will not work for the managers who report to you.
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this is uncanny since i was JUST WRITING a tweet on questions you should ask when interviewing:

- is there a career ladder? comp bands?
- do managers and engineers get compensated equally by level?
- do you encourage people to move back and forth between IC/mgmt?
the rest of @JeremyMcGee's list:
- is management seen as a promotion?
- how long does it take someone to reach senior engineer out of school?
- is there a terminal level for engineers?
- what is the distribution of engineers over levels? how many principals?
- what are the technical expectations for managers?
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an interesting and subtle point. The team you recruit, hire and retain with a 6 month time horizon is very different than the one you hire with a 2y or 5y horizon.

People *tend* not to think on a long enough time scale. But sometimes too long!
I used to think "not a good fit" was always a bullshit term. After 3 years of running a company, and parting ways with ever so many brilliant, wonderful people for the right reasons which also had absolutely no reflection on their worth -- it's not (always) bullshit. At all.
Sometimes a question of limited resources and changing strategy, interpersonal dynamics and shifting needs, crazy gambles that don't pan out, needs not fully understood, technical affinities and joys and stages of life and personal balance.
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"Don't forget o, take two of this in the morning and two at night!" The pharmacist said to Tony, he paid, thanked her & headed home

As soon as he walked out to the roadside he saw a car broken down & a lady standing beside it

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Congress has the power to override SCOTUS decisions thru statutory amendment or enactment

E.g, in the 1976 case of GE v. Gilbert SCOTUS held that firing or disciplining pregnant employees was Not an unlawful form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Kinda hot, but the first cloud loomed (pretty!)
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Melissa Etheridge coming down the side ramp toward the stage!

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The #lineup #featured #songs from #YourLittleSecret and back.
A fun #memory lane trip for my veteran show going friends, and a good #show for my newbie friends to walk into 😊
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This is insane. Bakery in Portland fired employees after they declined to serve a woman who came in after they were already closed. The woman, a professional equity activist, took out a video camera & claimed she was a victim of racism. #StarbucksEffect m.facebook.com/backtoedenbake…
I recommend you all read the full post and comments in that link. It is illuminating to see the level of masochism operating openly in our society with encouragement by power-hungry sadists.
Also, the bakery is hosting a “reparations happy hour” on June 20 where “Black, Brown & Indigenous people” can get free money & meet in a safe space. Whites not allowed to attend but can donate to reparations cause. oregonlive.com/portland/index…
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