Seth Purcell @sethpurc

Thoughts on dev management, design, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Personal motto: wishful thinking kills. Somewhere in Oregon Joined March 2012

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

Huh, I didn't think GSuite was an ad-supported product, yet here I am, seeing an ad for Google Cloud in my email like this is free webmail from the '90s. Nothing screams confidence in your cloud platform like having to hijack your enterprise product to shill for it. #GCP #FAIL

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

Just when I thought life couldn't possibly get any better. Looking forward to the forthcoming AWS record label, cookbook, and lifestyle magazine "At Work With Werner".

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

PSA to anyone developing a system to send 6- or 7-digit 2FA codes via SMS: hyphens exist. In a more civilized age, they were used to chunk long strings of digits like phone numbers and SSNs to make it easier for humans to dial/copy them. And yes, you can fit it in. #uxdesign

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

It appears that a downside of being a hugely successful monopoly is that you lose the clear-sightedness and doggedness that are often required to win in business. #GoogleStadia has discovered that there are other gaming platforms out there, which gamers and devs prefer. Who knew?

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

Exciting to see Texas and Florida collaborate to show us what can be accomplished just by abandoning human decency. Nothing reflects the "American can-do spirit" like deceiving desperate people into getting on a plane and making them someone else's problem for PR. #innovation

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

I think "empathy" has a branding problem: when many devs hear the word in a professional context – especially from someone wearing a scarf in the office – they start rolling their eyes. But of course empathy just means knowing the "deep why" behind user reqs and buying decisions.

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Seth Purcell @sethpurc

3 years ago

Got this pitch in a cold email. To paraphrase Triumph the insult-comic dog: AI performance reviews sounds like a great feature – if I want my whole team to resign!