The other day I got an email about how my LinkedIn profile made me a great fit for being a franchise owner.
I had no idea being a designer / product manager qualified me to run a Dairy Queen!!!
I've been in meetings to plan for the planning meetings. And then meetings to plan the re-planning meetings because inevitably, the plans went off track almost as soon as the planning meetings were done.
So we're just rebranding personalization engines as AI now?
Screenshot showing the Dow down exactly 666 points
Welp... As if I didn't already feel we were living in some kind of hellscape
Screenshot of podcast transcript: Your beard was incredible. But it was painstaking, right? To put that on because... Beards are really difficult and Judy Chin is unbelievable. And she was able to create a beard that looks real, highly uncomfortable to have on your face, but looks real. Even like not just on the film, like in person, I actually thought that was your beard. Judy is the best. She did such an amazing, amazing job.
From the transcript. Sorry it doesn't label who's speaking, but it's an exchange between Dichen Lachman, who plays Gemma, and Adam.
Presumably shooting schedules wouldn't allow time for Adam to grow it out and be clean shaven for other scenes. But it looks just like when he's had a real beard!
Revealed on the show's podcast that it wasn't real! It was so well done!
Actual government efficiency
"We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily" - a tale as old as time
A real attempt at government efficiency, instead of today's aim to cause as much misery as possible that we'll feel for decades
I used to live on the Northwest side of the city and had an internship in the suburbs. Not having a car meant that I had to: take the Blue Line downtown, then a Metra out to the burbs, and finally a Pace bus. Do it all in reverse to go home.
That added up to a 3 hour commute each way.
every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
Podcast hosts: the country is in a constitutional crisis and the rule of law doesn't exist.
*One second later*
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This thread is an excellent reminder: tech shouldn't be deployed just because it can; the aim is to solve real people's problems first and always.
Every sentence and bullet point is a gigantic red flag on its own
The micromanagement will continue until morale improves
I felt like a horrible person for watching and thinking the food looked delicious!
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Outside of work, I'm super shy. Everyday I have to get over it so I can be effective at my job.
(And sometimes there's a lot of muttering to myself for picking a career that makes me way more visible than I'd like to be normally)
There's a chance of someone saying something that conflicts with what other people told you or your own thoughts. That would be unsettling. Plus it takes time to digest and make sense of it.
Safer to just do something without the messy talky bit, even if you lose in the long run.
I once said these AI users will lead you astray very quickly and someone pushed back that I should go learn about them.
How about we learn that AI can't replicate real people's lives and contexts?
And they just added Snoopy ones!
This is just so needlessly complicated.
Someone had to write a bit of copy to explain a very common form field. Then they had to write code to specifically disallow the name in that bit of copy. And now the real Dave Jones can't register.
Exhibit A in why software should be as simple as possible.
Yeah, Severance is a show I'm willing to redo the work for
(and fingers crossed that this comment doesn't come back to haunt me in the future)
These gaps make TV feel like a chore. It's a ton of work to plug yourself back into the show's world - whether it's a rewatch or looking up summaries to read.
And that's why I simply stopped watching some shows I really liked. Their moment for me has passed.
Let's add cutesy animations to the apps everyone is forced to use at work. Who cares if it slows down doing their jobs as long as they found it delightful?
(I could argue true delight in an app like this is minimizing the time I spend using it. I just want to get on with my day)
Listened to a podcast that described the key to a company's huge success: bring customers in early to show them work-in-progress and get feedback early.
This type of thing isn't really talked about a lot, yet it's foundational to making good products.
There is only one side where lying is a core part of their existence; that does not mean fact-checking is politically biased
I was in a place that went to Scrum just as I got there and then SAFe during my time. The first order of business in these transformations: get everyone certified. Second order of business: don't deviate from what the certifications taught, lest you get branded a heretic and troublemaker.
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In 1999, I was an intern for the Chicago Tribune. My main project was to traverse their entire 36-floor HQ and manually run a Y2K fix on every computer in the building. Unthinkable today.
I can't tell which was the worst offender:
Miro this year telling me how many boards I worked on. As if I were doing it for funsies.
Or the Washington Post last year breezily summarizing my news reading.
