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You know that old friend you haven’t talked to in years? That you meant to get in touch with someday? Please don’t wait.
I waited too long and cancer took them.
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In other news, Luke Skywalker has announced a strategic partnership as the Light Side division of Darth Vader Enterprises.
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So the "Agile Alliance" has been subsumed by the PMI. What an epic example of "YOU MISSED THE FUCKING POINT."
Fortunately, no one really gives a shit about the Agile Alliance. Or the PMI.
Carry on.
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"it's a big club, and you ain't in it." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason
George was right on the money many years ago.
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New podcast interview: balancing multiple creative passions—from programming to music to woodworking and my professional journey: how The Pragmatic Programmer accidentally launched a publishing company and became an Amazon top 10 bestseller.
Captivate: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/99c827b2-3db7-4865-856c-83650ddef170/
Listennotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/authors-on-mission/how-to-nurture-creativity-_1Zt3cW6L4Y/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xFlKU5TxBcPQqrxkeB1un?si=IQFbAtDySIOmIbk86IfQiA
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Look, this business of harassing trans people, gay people, etc is not some abstract argument. These are my friends. My family. I am a straight white male and I will absolutely defend my family to my last breath. You fuck with them, you fuck with me. And you don't want to do that.
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Happy National Sound Check Day! 1,2 1,2!
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New game show: Running Man, but the contestants are all CEOs from abusive, shitty companies.
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“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”― Leonard Bernstein
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So apparently it's already CEO hunting season this year? I feel I missed a memo or something.
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"What do you do for a living?"
"I re-login to websites, wrangle 2Fa, and dismiss popups."
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Both of my parents served in WWII. My uncle died in battle.
Could we maybe please stop voting for fascists?
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Every crisis is the end of an illusion
— Gerald Weinberg
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn.
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The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.
--Alan Watts
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The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”
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Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”
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