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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The first donation is in. Yay, the system works. That's because @charitywater clearly doesn't use a service mesh, which is the first victim of the snark.
Service meesh are fundamentally thin layers of abstraction on top of DNS, which is a database. The reason for this is purely to shut up the "it's always DNS" brigade. Now it's the service mesh which nobody understands either, but at least this time they're honest about it.
“The Duckbill Group” is next. Sweep away the fancy language and the marketing; what you’re left with is “Dramatic Readings of Excel Spreadsheets.”
In "Julius Caesar" Cassandra was cursed to prophecy destruction, but never to be believed. In tech, Cassandra prophecies destruction of your AWS cross-AZ data transfer fees, but you won't believe that prophecy until the 3rd of next month.

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Math is just yelling out numbers hoping you get it right—also called Numberwang, also called blockchain.

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19 Mar
One of the reasons job descriptions are hard to write is because they’re not just about the role, they’re about what you’re signaling—whether you realize it or not.
You're often too close to the role and fail to recognize what makes your company distinct.

I mean, we don't do on-call at the Duckbill Group because why would we? But I forgot to mention it in a draft of the job req, and the candidates we want are often mired in on-call hell.
"We're fun, so we should make 'a sense of humor' mandatory!"

Yeah, but "must have a good sense of humor" is often used by some incredibly toxic workplaces to justify shitty behaviors, and candidates are sensitive to that.
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18 Mar
This is a *great* question that deserves its own thread.

The context is "I help companies polish reports like this to relevance before publication as an analyst gig; how is that not a shakedown / extortion racket?"
To be clear: the analyst engagements for things like this are very much "I will basically mock the thing you're building, only early enough in the process that you can fix it before publication."

This has definite value to the company; it makes their thing resonate better.
"How is this not extortion?"

Because you're not looking deeply enough. Read the thread I just did. It called a bad report bad, and that's true--but it didn't disparage @acloudguru's actual company or value proposition one iota.
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18 Mar
"Hey, if we sneak up and tickle the wolverine I bet he'll be *SUUUUUPER* cuddly!" says @acloudguru.

It's time for a thread.
"How Companies Are Shifting to Multi-Cloud" is almost certainly a half-assed take. @acloudguru confirms it by failing to retitle their marketing funnel from the "Cloud and the Public Sector" version. ImageImage
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Men: don't apologize that "other men are shitty." Step up and offer to do something about it instead.
"You're hurtling down a snowy mountain. A dangerous ravine is to your right, a dark forest is to your left. You have a decision to make. Are you on skis or a snowboard?"
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So I've had a few people ask me to opine on how to find your first client when you set out on your own.

My initial inclination was "people aren't going to want to hear this," which means it's probably rife for:

A thread.
Let me start by talking about my first client when I set out on my own.

"Corey, I have this problem. You know how to fix problems like this. You just left your job; you've probably got some spare cycles. What do you say?"

In a very real sense, my first client found me.
In time, that first client and I kept hiring each other back and forth for a bunch of things, until it got to the point where we were just passing $X000 back and forth.

It just got silly, I asked @mike_julian to run my company, and here we are today.
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