David Lee @_davlee

Servant leader of tech leaders, father, cynic, optimist, consequentialist. All opinions expressed are my own, subject to revision as further evidence emerges. Melbourne Joined May 2008

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Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub

3 years ago

Was asked "what are the challenges when doing code review." I see no value in code review. They add context swaps, delay and bottlenecks, damage your feedback loop, and don't usually find much of value to fix. 1/3

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W @warren_s

3 years ago

If you’re a software engineer who doesn’t care how your stuff gets to and stays working in production, maybe it’s time to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if this is really the profession for you?

Charity Majors @mipsytipsy

3 years ago

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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

3 years ago

As a tech lead or eng manager, you so frequently get request from above or from other teams to drop what you are doing and work on this thing they need, *now*. During my 4 years at Uber after asking these questions, 9 out of 10 times it turned out it wasn't really urgent:

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🌋 @hum_dunkin

3 years ago

you can moan about americans all you want but imagine there was 350 million australians

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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @iamvlaaaaaaad

3 years ago

Twitter thread based on demand and cause I can't be bothered to spend 6 months writing a blog post: platform teams are dead. Platform teams as in teams that build an internal platform that "abstracts the cloud" and "makes things easier for developers" and "our k8s platform" ⚰️

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W @warren_s

3 years ago

System built to fool humans into thinking they're talking to a real person, tricks human into thinking they're talking to a real person.

Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmacc

3 years ago

System built to fool humans into thinking they're talking to a real person, tricks human into thinking they're talking to a real person.

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

Fingerless gloves. I’m for ‘em.

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

Hemingway's Law - the maximum number of syllables per word you should use in addressing an audience is an inverse function of the size of the audience.

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Laura Tacho 🌮 @rhein_wein

3 years ago

Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

Despite the insistence on spelling “independence” wrong, great thread

Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind

3 years ago

Despite the insistence on spelling “independence” wrong, great thread

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

characterlab.org Angela Duckworth (author of Grit) has a non-profit with free science-based advice for parents and educators. It’s great.

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

there are two kinds of people: those who insist there are only two kinds of people (despite the obvious outliers), and those who have trained themselves to see and accept the mess, and work to find the least worst set of tradeoffs in oversimplifying.

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Cedric Chin @ejames_c

4 years ago

1/ I recently finished digging into a body of work around extracted tacit mental models of business expertise, and it is wild. It turns out that business experts all share a common mental model of business, and you can do all sorts of interesting things if you have that model.

Cedric Chin @ejames_c

4 years ago

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

Can anyone recommend a good mortgage broker in Melbourne / AU?

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3 years ago

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David Lee @_davlee

3 years ago

My hair has a way of changing state, in a very sudden and binary way, from “normal enough” into full blown Doc Brown territory.

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David Lee @_davlee

4 years ago

HiPPOthesis: highest paid person’s opinion, to be interpreted as fact rather than hypothesis. If incontrovertible falsifying evidence later emerges, the HiPPOthesis is not disproven; it is merely (quietly) written out of history.

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Yaniv Bernstein @ybernstein

4 years ago

The best software engineering teams understand that all technical decisions are _business_ decisions.

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Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind

4 years ago

Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is… Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard? A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”. Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)