RT @firstround: A slow-moving org can nearly always be traced back to confusion around company goals. It’s why @kellan always starts conve….

Careers page is up!

Please contact me on literally any platform other than this one. I’m almost never here anymore, I can’t even login via the website due to 2FA breakage. But excitement to work with some of you great people brought me back for a moment.

Hey all, I’m hiring! Engineers and engineering managers (and also have product, design and marketing roles opening) to join at Adobe. More details here:

And as part of the new gig I’m going to my first giant trade show in … forever? Next month I’ll be in Vegas at NAB. If you there please say hi, I’d love to see you. Maybe you can teach me something about this industry I’ve joined. Official blog post:

Oh hey! I’m doing a new thing and I’ve been so busy I haven’t posted about it. I’ve joined Adobe, leading engineering for their product and building out a platform for creative collaboration.

I find comfort in that view being soundly repudiated as Twitter stumbles from dysfunction to dysfunction, the site barely working, braindead and poorly handled announcements like today's API shutdown, etc.

There was an unspoken fear among some tech leaders, certainly I had it, that the bar for leadership Twitter had been set so low at Twitter that even Musk could clear it. And that this would then be taken as evidence that the assholes had been right all along.

I do have some lovely code for screenscraping Twitter while jumping between spot instances that I wrote when I was build the oldtweets search engine (before there were downloadable archives). I wonder where I put that?.

Friends, if you have not exported your archive, the time is now, it seems unlikely that feature will keep working.

Part 3 of "Software and its Discontents" is out. This builds on part 1 and 2 to talk about the economics of software in the Internet era, and how it's changed.

"good management is critical to how organizations can effectively scale: that's what managers do, provide the critical resources that allow larger and larger groups of people to effectively collaborate" (shared in case it gets cut from the blog post).

Published part 2 of my series on "Software and its Discontents" -- this one looks at one of the most common themes I heard people talk about: complexity

(Publishing this on MLK feels disrespectfully off topic but also I feel like a meditation on power and systems is very on topic).

Published part 1 of my series on “Software and its Discontent, January 2023”. This is the intro post setting up the series covering what I found when I went and talked to people and the challenges and conflict in our industry at the moment

RT @harryh: Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru….

Local dive bar is open with 4 inches of standing water inside.

Soquel Village. They just evacuated the fire department

Silicon Valley has a deep epistemological commitment to the idea that truth and plausible sounding bullshit are functionally equivalent.

RT @JillWohlner: 🚨 *work with me alert!* 🚨. With the end of the year, reflection is upon us all. I’ve decided to open my books in December….