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Jun 7, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read Read on X
im wendy, a pm in big tech, and im going to walk YOU through a day in my glamorous life Image
theres nothing like a commute to the office to get you warmed up for a day shepherding your team to build a product. i like to use my time to stretch my wings and take in the city and remember how much i believe in what i do Image
10am, time for standup! its nice to see the boys pretending to have made progress on what they promised theyd do yesterday

what? no, its not a costume day. 90% of SWEs are furries and we encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work! Image
after replying to some slack messages from 1am and updating all of my gantt charts ive got an impromptu 1:1 with the director of product

he looks chipper which is usually bad news. it turns out he had an idea for a new product direction last night after a long talk with GPT Image
our annual mandatory diversity training is after lunch and im in a session with my DS and his intern

i break the news to him as gently as possible that we're going to be re-goaling and whether he likes it or not the new KR is increasing the number of fonts on our landing page Image
at our call with sales the director neglects to show up to walk them through his new vision. sales is not happy

im not happy either but i cover for him. he'd better appreciate this (he won't) Image
after THAT'S over i grab an empty conference room to talk the team through the new plan requirements.

they're going to have to learn to code in esperanto. i didn't even know you could do that but i guess it is a universal language Image
im going to be up until 3am updating my gantt charts but you know what

fuck it

i decide to blow the rest of our morale budget on a mandatory tiki bar crawl Image
i turn in at 3:30am after tidying up my canopy bed

im going to be incredibly hungover tomorrow but the coffee will be hot and even if it werent id still be the only remotely responsible person in the entire org

as a PM its important to take pride in what you being to the table Image
if you're a former or current coworker reading this please know that i hold you in the highest regard
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Jun 27
they hate how little it takes for us to be happy
the women all want to kill her

it's beautiful Image
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i think maybe the term of art for this is "pickme"? idk

shes minmaxxing and shamelessly trading off homosocial status for heterosexual appeal

my theory is that women who are mad about this arent wrong to be but the specific reason for their anger is that shes a gender traitor
Read 5 tweets
Jun 27
realistically there's no way to stop people from tacitly or explicitly allocating taxes and benefits on the basis of race and large portions of the country have interests in this happening or ideological commitments to doing so

this is just our life now
supreme court rulings arent gonna change anything, no one gives a shit about the law on principle and its easy to obfuscate discrimination to taste

any direct government enforcement will i expect inevitably be straightforwardly politically motivated
the norms to which new immigrants are assimilating and young natives inculcated are immensely ethnically charged without any public and common ideal of transcending race for an american identity, an identity which frankly doesnt even exist anymore
Read 9 tweets
Jun 10
as long as we're sending insane ideas to @JDVance

does the federal government have to enforce laws everywhere or can it announce it won't?

because one funny thing the administration could do would be to deprioritize the enforcement of most federal laws in sanctuary states
>“congrats, california, you're now libertarian af. no OSHA, no IRS audits, no EPA. enjoy.”

it’d be legally coherent and politically thermonuclear. which means someone will definitely try it. Image
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alternatively trump could target blue states by actually enforcing marijuana law which would be very funny too
Read 6 tweets
Jun 4
hmmm sure ok i'll bite

the rheinweisenlager don't seem that bad tbh

i havent looked at the wikipedia page and wont, just going to attach some commentary and notes on context
the rheinweisenlager were a bunch of concentration camps in the original sense where surrendered wehrmacht soldiers were held for several months in 1945

the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
during the closing months of the war absolutely insane numbers of encircled and overwhelmed german soldiers surrendered . . . in the west

less so in the east, where they were more inclined to fight to the death against the red army
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Jun 3
my only yarvin story is that we met in a temporary teahouse and he spent an hour watching my kid while moon and i took a break, and he sent us off with advice on early reading for her

it's a small thing but it was a welcome kindness for us, bare acquaintances
i'm also happy to say @selentelechia is making great progress
@selentelechia anyway these hit jobs are incredibly tiresome
Read 4 tweets
May 17
"travel" is fake

no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel

you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail
"i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?

you are not well
"i Travel" you can go wherever you like in the world but you will never escape yourself
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