Cameron Watters
watters@hachyderm.io
<p>|:rainbowinfinity:🧠👴🏻👨🏻💻 | 👫🏼🐶☀️🏔️🌊🏉 | "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" —Baldwin Unfortunately for humanity, most of you are far too credulous…</p>
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Post #3366979
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116788781091937730 Part of my hypothesis about various forever-losing-money business models is that the financial bailouts of U.S. banks and automakers after the 2008 financial crisis created a new business model—become too big to fail. If a company can become sufficiently load bearing, then allowing it's failure, and the economic blast radius thereof, becomes politically untenable, and the government will intervene to bail out shareholders. We saw echoes of t...
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Post #1549813
RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116443429242121680 My favorite thing about the simple sabotage field manual is that it&#39;s basically an own goal bingo card for the wave of tech startups that embraced the &quot;rethink everything from first principles&quot; pseudo-philosophy over the past 15(ish) years. They&#39;re all out there effectively self-sabotaging (and delivering garbage products) because they haven&#39;t yet re-learned lessons about organizational ef...
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Post #1091666
RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116386098353620013 This is actually a pretty good terse description of a major source of accidental complexity in software.