Paul Dowman

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Alright /teams... a recurring topic around here. Thoughts? https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

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gm from the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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“Effective managers hand books to their team. Not so they can be reminded of high school, but so that next week she can say to them, ‘are we there yet?’” https://seths.blog/2008/05/how-to-read-a-b/

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“early-career employees are a cheap call option on talent that's expensive to acquire later. When hiring slows down, that variance compresses, and the option value of the early hires takes a big hit.” https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-supply-chain-of-talent/

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“When the causes that people are passionately behind are more important to them than the system for making decisions, the system is in jeopardy.” - Ray Dalio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pick-side-fight-keep-your-head-down-flee-ray-dalio-53fpe

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Too many people running hubs! A good problem I guess?

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Some feedback on hubble logs: 1. Do they need to be JSON? I think human readable is important. They can still be parseable. The nested JSON with `\` is especially bad. 2. I assume "type": "err" means it was from stderr, but it's confusing, especially these ones with an empty message (and it seemed hung too). 3. Instead of the numeric "level" in the nested JSON in the message, a human readable level (info/warn/error/critical/etc) would help a lot. 4. There's so much. Verbose output with "debug" level is fine, but it should be easy to change that or at least use grep (can't even use jq because of the nested JSON). Thanks for listening ❤️

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gm from the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We still have snow

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“The difference between a grinder and a lazy person is only 3x — a grinder might work 100 hours/week versus a mere 30 hours for an oaf. Yet we routinely see people who are 100x or 1000x more productive than others. How?” https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/10x-work-versus-1x-work

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Kent Beck on the documentation tradeoff. Good stuff https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-documentation-tradeoff

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“The paradox is that in an effort to do more, we end up doing less.” https://fs.blog/what-you-do-today-is-not-essential/

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“Don’t interrupt your team with surprise meetings or requests. Be intentional instead.” https://newsletter.canopy.is/p/avoiding-surprise-requests

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Pretty wild light show in the sky last night

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Great post on managing high performers. Advice #1: manage them! “Doing and coaching are two separate skills; you can help someone improve without being better than them” https://blog.staysaasy.com/p/managing-high-performers

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"In case you are wondering where v1.14.1 went, let's just say, the continuous integration gods have not been good to us." If you're building in the open you might as well replace BS with humor, love to see it https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.14.2

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iPads don't need faster CPUs, they need a more open developer ecosystem where it's possible for app developers to actually build a business. As it is the hardware is wasted as a netflix device.

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I guess this actually just points out the ridiculousness of someone just reading out written statements for reporters https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/03/ukraine-ai-foreign-ministry-spokesperson

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“investing in R&D is a way to buy a sort of talent buffer: when business is good, researchers can focus on things that won't be practical for a decade, but when the business is threatened, there's a talent bench that can be redirected…” https://capitalgains.thediff.co/p/moonshotsorbuybacks

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The accepted wisdom for how to keep people motivated is “autonomy, mastery and purpose”. But there’s a 4th thing: being surrounded by great people. To keep “A players” motivated make sure they’re surrounded with only “A players”.

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