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kellan

@kellan@fiasco.social

Pondering what’s next.
Creating capacity for change.
Hope before optimism.
A's dad.

Previously VPE Dropbox, SVP Blink Health, CTO Etsy, Flickr Architect.

Location: Brooklyn (and sometimes the Catskills)
From: California

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Where is the content talking about contemporary software development issues? Like "How to migrate away from GraphQL?", "Maintaining software that was written by a team twice this size", "HTML and CSS for React Engineers", etc?

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"Hiring Practices for for Teams where People Don't Quit Every 18 Months"

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There is this important and under appreciated thing in open source where you leave some mess and some low hanging bugs so that your project is inviting in a way a gleaming edifice of architecture never is … some days I think this is my whole management vibe

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I was just thinking tonight, are there any other imaginary books as frequently cited as, “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”

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Also has anyone done any work on the how the changing nature of work place norms mean that folks out of academia are often more hierarchical and authoritarian in their impulses than folks out of Corporate America?

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Is it true that they're replacing Sam Altman with a LLM trained on Hacker News comments?

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Is there anyone on the beat looking at approaches to using AI in software development? Coding has always been the easiest part of software development making code gen the most boring application but there are so many other possibilities. Jack Clark (jack-clark.net) feels like the best broad coverage but I’d love to find someone focusing on software development in particular

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Push and Pull https://kellanem.com/notes/push-and-pull

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Btw, if you have the core value that the more power and privilege you have the more responsibility and accountability is appropriate, I hate to break this to you, you might either be Spider-Man or an anarchist.

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My big fantasy for what I’d do with a little free time is start a link blog. This is probably a sad commentary on a half dozen things simultaneously.

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Always good to use this interregnum period at the end of year for a bit of light digital cleaning, cleaning up unused subscriptions, shutting down idle VMs, etc. In particular this year, with tech's increasingly reactionary politics, useful to spend some time making sure you aren't sending money to Nazis, fascists, racists, and supporters of genocide.

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Definitely a “we are all climate refugees or will be soon” vibe in
NYC this evening

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A challenge we ran into at Dropbox and I’m seeing again at Adobe is there is a compelling ecosystem of developers and modern tools for doing native Apple development but not Windows. Which feels backwards given market size. So many conversations of “Sure it would be great in Swift but then what do we do for Windows?” to justify janky technology

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Really daylight savings should be taken as a bellwether of a functioning democracy — in a functioning democracy we wouldn’t still be doing this to ourselves

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OH: "I was thinking about doing an escape room team building event, does anyone have a suggestion?" "Put them all in a room and drop a table in production."

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“Using the USA’s biofuel land for solar PV could power the US three times over” - Hannah Ritchie https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-corn-biofuels

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"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity," -- https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

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Talking to people about your big rewrite/re-architecture project feels a bit like talking to people about your imaginary friend — people are really polite about it but keeping giving you that “are you serious?” look

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One definition of a senior engineer

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    kellan,
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    @lzg also you don’t have to wear pants if you’re wearing a dress. This has been my daughter’s unwavering logic for always wearing dresses since she was 5

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    Some people say it’s the stress. A lot of people point to the fundamental loneliness of the role. But I got to say, the worst part of being in senior leadership is what to do with yourself on those days when humans are too annoying to interact with.

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    I would read the hell out of a deep analysis of the many layers (internal, external, technical, personal, systemic, etc., etc.) that have combined to make early Google so arguably less dumb than early OpenAI.

    It isn’t just rose colored glasses, right? There was no equivalent of the shareholder coup, the ScarJo voice thing, etc.?

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    @migurski @luis_in_brief hard to remember at this late date that “Move fast and break things” and Theranos are down stream from PayPal mafia while most of the other fuckery in the valley is downstream from Ycombinator

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    @migurski @luis_in_brief hard to overlook the impact of nearly two decades Ycombinator and Paypal mafia explicitly fomenting a culture of breaking the rules and disrespecting people as the key to success

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    @luis_in_brief @migurski I never really thought of YC and Google being that closely linked, founded by the crew out of Boston with major DNA injection from Sequoia and Yuri Milner

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    Did not expect ChatGPT to make up words, but got the suggestion this morning on how to handle things “more granically”

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