Can we move past looking at the mythicized origins of tech companies for management book fodder? Not yet? Okay.
sometimes community care is getting between 2 people on some strong uppers getting into a fist fight on the red line platform, then breaking up ANOTHER fight that one of them started on a train car, and the person you saved from the second fight saying "he's probably a f*g"
I feel like 2026 is not the year to pretend like management and tech can be this morally pure ethical fantasyland if you just ignore the layers of exploitation making it happen
if we have to keep the term "cost center" around maybe we can at least apply it to all functional teams rather than just any team whose work we want to devalue. actually, maybe i agree with drucker - all teams are cost centers, and the only profit center is a check that doesn't bounce
who wants to watch this for 8 hours with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCs-...
you have found the mythical seal cave
YouTube video by AZALI
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@lizthegrey.com phrase from today that will stick with me: "paws on keyboard" 🐾🐾
desperately not wanting to be part of the system (that feeling is part of the system)
one sentence horror: "And when I explained this to Alice, my ChatGPT therapist, she understood."
realizing that my long-held avoidance of posting anything vaguely meaningful has been because of a conviction that what is happening in this country would happen; as well as drive to keep the feed clean in case the horrible companies that often gatekeep jobs check my social media
@chicago.devopsdays.org slides up: speakerdeck.com/reidsavage/a... might turn the speaker notes into a post as well at a l8r d8 #DevOpsDays
Anti-DevOps: SRE at Honeycomb
Siloes and boundaries are natural and useful; they constrain the problem space, make it possible to reason in the face of overwhelming complexity, and g…
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reid@reid9.bsky.social · 2y agooh hey it's me!
omg who wants an invite to my I Saw The TV Glow themed birthday in the Birthday Room at Regal Cinemas in Chicago, Illinois
"you can smile if you want". what about a surprise DL photo when i haven't showered or shaved makes you think i want to smile (i desperately do but physically cannot)
writing an article i would have liked to have read when i started managing (what is management actually?) and the answer i'm coming to is it's the crappy corp stuff nobody else can do - perf management and firing people - but also everything else, pro re nata.
today i learned the only reason you can visit fallingwater is because the owner's son was gay and had no kids and donated it
