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Charity Majors @mipsytipsy
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People keep asking about my "I TEST IN PROD" shirt: they are honeycomb shirts! No, you can't buy one, but we do send them to folks who have done us a solid. 🐝🙃
Some examples I can think of offhand:

🐝 referred us to a great prospect, or lobbied their own company to try us
🐝 signed up for beta testing, gave great feedback
🐝 pull request
🐝 contributed an sdk or beeline
🐝 wrote an article comparing us
🐝 a nice tweet or screenshot ☺️
We have very limited supplies left, and no plans to rerun. If you want one, DM me and let me know how you helped, your size, fitted or straight cut, and address. And 🤞!

Pic from @o11ycon 🐝🌈
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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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People keep asking what they can do to fix things. Here is a start. Get involved with your local party. Understand that state gov is the place that controls voting laws and how the votes are counted. Being independent is fine but it's the parties that still control the ballotbox
Start funding candidates for 2020. You know the Dems have already started. Pay attention and keep a record of all your representatives votes and words. They want you to forget by election day.
Run for local office if you are inclined to do so. 2020 is going to be a barn burner.
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People keep asking me — (no one's been asking me) — they say: 'Matt? Do you have a playlist to listen to for the next 30 hours before we get election results?'

And I say — (again, this conversation isn't happening) — 'Folks, this is the playlist for you!' open.spotify.com/user/mafuller6…
There's a Waxahatchee cover of Jessica Simpson's "With You" on this playlist that everyone — (again: absolutely no one but me) — is just going crazy over!

open.spotify.com/user/mafuller6…
♫ Control me like a puppet ♫
♫ Call me on my cell phone ♫
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♫ You're a casanova ♫
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People keep asking me about the Democrats doing well recently in #earlyvoting because they are catching up in my "Change in Rep-Dem vs 2016." This isn't true. The Dems are not doing well. Let me explain...
#MAGA #election2018
If the Republicans do 10 points better than the Dems in the "Change in Rep-Dem vs 2016" in the first million votes but then the Reps and Dems tie in the second million, the result moves from R+10% to R+5%.
#MAGA #election2018 #earlyvoting
That doesn't mean the Dems did better. In fact, the Republicans help their lead. But with a larger denominator, the Republicans no longer have the same percentage gain despite having the same nominal gain.
#MAGA #election2018 #earlyvoting
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People keep asking about Manafort pardons. Set aside the state crim problem. Starting last Monday, Manafort spoke to Mueller’s team to get a deal.
A pardon cannot unring that bell. He can be called as a witness with *immunity* to tell the truth (Pardon doesn’t create immunity)...
2/ Mueller will get Manafort to a grand jury soon, but Manafort has already proffered key information to get a deal.
Note: SDNY hasn’t made a deal with Cohen probably because he hasn’t given them enough reliable info. That suggests Manafort gave up more significant info already.
3/ If Manafort is pardoned, then given immunity, but contradicts last week’s proffered info to Mueller at a trial, he risks obstruction for lying to prosecutors or perjury for lying in court.
Would immunity have to extend to perjury/obstruction?
And if not, could he plead 5th?
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People keep asking ...
1) serverless first, on a public provider. Don't rebuild services that already exist, consume them.
2) If you must, then use containers sparingly on a public provider. Remember containers are less constrained and flexibility is not a friend.
1/2
2/2
 If you're told that you need to build on-premise then stop, robustly challenge the idea, question why is this, ask if anyone has actually used serverless and explain you'll consider a proposal whilst cutting IT spending, reducing headcount and sweating existing assets.
X : Why reduce headcount or sweat existing assets?
Me : Removal of inertia. Make sure the axe falls on those wedded to past practice. Serverless isn't a question of "if" but "when" and whilst you should give people a path (i.e. investment in education), inertia must be managed.
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"One #ArabianNights tale concerns an evil blacksmith who repented his ways and, as a result, found that he could handle fire and forge metal with his bare hands -- thus, a 1/2 creature with protection from Red."

Source: allenvarney.com/av_mgcwords.ht…

#Vorthos
Sick with fear that his glorious realm will pass away, the Caliph Haroun persuades the Sandman to take the city into dream, where it will live forever. In similar fashion, City in a Bottle removes all Arabian Nights cards from the game, except itself
Several characters in the folktales of original #ArabiansNight rub fishliver oil over their bodies to gain the ability to breath under water.

#vorthos
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