Tim Williamson
@TimWilliate
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product data engineering lead, data shaman, industrial genomics @Bayer4Crops -- formerly @MonsantoCo -- turning "ought" into "is" - Tweets are mine
Saint Louis, MO
Joined October 2013
This galaxy is the @MonsantoCo corn pipeline. Stars are inbreds. Lines are ancestral relationships. Plant breeding is beautifully complex.
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The most useful razors and rules I've found: 1. Bragging Razor - If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim 2. High Agency Razor - If unsure who to work
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Politicians sell a product. Voters are the customers. Never blame a customer for not buying what you are selling. It is on you to develop a product worth buying.
Younger voters are the issue. It comes from years of radical indoctrination - on campus, in school, with social media, & throughout culture. We have to counter it or conservatives will never win battleground states again. @yaf
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Knowing zero about Minecraft when this adventure began, after much struggle I feel oddly accomplished by helping my seven year old “build a nether portal”
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Have any ranked-choice voting advocates been highlighting how, among many voting challenges, it also would solve the current Speaker of the House nonsense?
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20+ years ago, the (admittedly affluent) public HS I attended required every student to complete a semester long personal finance course as a mandatory requirement to graduate. To this day I learned more in that course than most adults I meet today...
I’m thinking about creating a basic course in finance (and economics) for high schoolers (well really for anyone). I continue to be amazed(?) by how few people actually understand the basics.
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I am very lightly contemplating purchasing a small quantity of TSLA stock purely to watch the next shareholders meeting...
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Though some responses are surely sarcasm, I find it shocking the number of people claiming a deep understanding of Amendment 1 of the US Constitution, but no seeming understanding of Amendment 22...
Would you support Elon Musk if he ran for president?
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Regardless of your opinions on different employment laws, no company can have an optimally functioning hiring pipeline without an optimally functioning firing pipeline, you can experience this in the US at large companies that refuse to fire under the guise of "risk management"
This was unironically one of the most difficult things about running BloomTech in Europe. Hiring someone is such a high risk it makes it very, very difficult for junior engineers to get someone to take a chance on them.
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The only comment I have to contribute the current Twitter debate is the wisdom of Charlie Munger... "Show me the incentives, and I will show you the outcome"
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A topic for our next team discussion @caseymanus
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@SahajKohli Assuming ill-intent in everything people do is a dreadful way to live your life.
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There is a special form of peace and happiness to be found in repeatedly watching the video of your six year old getting a good hit in a baseball game for which they are very proud
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Watching NFL football while lacing up a fresh pair of @saucony Endorphin Pro I to use at the @MOCowbellRun marathon in two weeks
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1/ On Being Efficient With Busy People This is a thread for people at junior to mid stages in their career (people at senior levels generally operate this way and, at very senior levels, they all operate this way). It is updated for 2022 practices
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Here is a guide to eating Asian food: 1. All of it is family style - that's what the lazy Susan is for (except for Japanese bento boxes). 2. Eat the rice with the entree. 3. When someone offers you an entree, it is part of our culture. 1/
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I met Jeff in early 2016 when he invited me to record an episode. I’ve listened to multiple episodes every week since then and have found his work of limitless value, in both the up and down times. I am profoundly saddened to learn of his passing.
It is with terrible sadness that we inform the SED community that Jeff passed away on July 1, 2022. His family expresses deep gratitude to the SED community for supporting Jeff over the years and has kindly requested privacy during this difficult time. 1/2
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Our industrial life sciences data engineering team at Bayer Crop Science is hiring a Platform Engineering Lead. Remote, Kubernetes, Go, GCP… https://t.co/Fs6QVteKB8
Hello friends, With all these big tech freezes, I wonder if you folks can share interesting open engineering, product and management positions. I have a few talented friends looking to switch jobs, and figured my network might know better. (Not for me, I am on hiatus)
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I am starting to thing that the best decision a growing company can make is to not buy that first SAP instance, the investment you never stop paying for
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A facet of techno-optimism is the observation that technological development operates as an effective deflationary force, allowing more to be accomplished with fewer inputs
Do the Math: 1962 Gas: 30-cents/gal Med. household income $6,000 Mileage: 14 mpg Dist. per 1/1,000 of income: 280 mi 2022 Gas: $5.00/gal Med. household income $75,000 Mileage: 25 mpg Dist. per 1/1,000 of income: 375 mi We travel father today on earned money than 60 yrs ago.
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We can all only hope to one day be as metal as Eddie Munson #StrangerThings4Vol2
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