Category: Things-I-Can’t-Believe-I-Need-To-Explain

Just putting this here in case anybody ever needs it.

I have a longer post in development, but… holidays. Just to prove I’m still alive, I thought I’d share this wonderfully understated source of snark: How do you learn new things?

[[ Warning – as though it’s needed – this will contain many spoilers. ]] Star Wars is an inextricably important part of my childhood. When the first movie, Episode IV (“A New Hope”) came out, it instantly redeemed my love of science fiction with my peers. I know that it is an important work for…

This was brilliant. Payload: Not all ideas are the same, and not all conversations about ideas even have basic legitimacy. If you feel isolated by this, that your views are basically unwelcome in tech and can’t be spoken about… well, that’s a fair point. These views are fundamentally corrosive to any organization they show up…

Here’s the thing. The analysis is simple. I don’t think I really need to justify this much more than that: three quadrants in that table are fine places to be, the fourth is really, really bad. Don’t be in the bottom left quadrant. The only way to be sure we aren’t in the bottom left…