Tag: blogs
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The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate. From here. I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.”…
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Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition. Original Content From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li, Software Defined Talk #117: “In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up…
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I became one of a countless number of young men who found solace in Nietzsche’s thought. A life-affirming philosophy compensated for not being very good at life. Wasn’t I smart enough to reject God, and strong enough not to need a supernatural crutch? And: We continue to see demonstrations of some of the same pitfalls…
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“Always be suspicious of a dish that has five shots of vodka lined up so you can brace yourself.” From Ye Olde WWW.
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There’s a fine line between “charming” and “annoying.”
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How shit actually works versus how you wish it worked
A discussion of messy dichotomies from the robot: Thus spoke 🤖 : Exploratory vs Normative — Quick Reference A compact reference for thinking about how a framework is operating: discovering reality vs prescribing order. Exploratory vs Normative (academic, but precise) Exploratory: investigates what exists in the real world; derives insight from practice Normative: asserts what…
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“If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears rather than their sales pitch.” Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition
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”Trente Glorieuses” Trente Glorieuses
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“Give me just a second to think about what I need to be thinking about.”
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Every generation thinks their decade had “real” culture and everything after is fake. The 90s kids say this about the 80s. The 2010s kids will say it about the 2000s. The pattern is so reliable it’s boring. Culture isn’t actually “worse” now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo. JA Westenberg https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115512539998061826
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I am considering putting corn on my shit. I like corn just fine. I’m from Texas after all. But over here in Europe they put corn on damn-near everything, even pizza. A poke bowl has corn too. Corn has gone too far.
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“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
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I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.
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Make it easy for other people to pitch for you
With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned. 🔗 Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you
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Tuesday Links and Wastebook
Relative to your interests I’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, and some content that doesn’t show up in the newsletter. Apologies if you’re living with duplicates. “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph – What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s…
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
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