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Engineering mindsets
- ongoing honest evaluation of the merits and flaws of in-house and third-party technologies
- agile utilization and promotion of good technologies and planned deprecation of bad technologies
- always have a plan B
- balance engineering with sales with marketing
- understanding the relationship of vision, milestones, releases, issues and tasks
- “Not invented here” vs “Standing on the shoulders of giants”
- “Never ending redesign” vs “but we have always done it this way”
- “Short-term agile” vs “Epic fixed projects”
- “Monolithic Frankenstein” vs “Sprawling “
Feminism
Feminism was always about self respect, and about people knowing they could be themselves and be equal without having to be the same.
By this very definition it can mean very different things to other people without loosing its truth.
Burning books.
Burning anything is disrespectful whether it is draft papers, flags, korans or people. It always reflects more on the person doing the burning than it ever does on what is being burned. Equally arguing that is ok to offend provided those people will not retaliate is also disrespectful.
Ethics, Secrets and Lies
Often i may using publicly available data infer or guess other details that may or may not be true. I see no problem with sharing those inferences or analysis with people that have the same access to facts as myself provided i am clear that those are inferences and opinion and are not fact. I may at some point learn some secret that confirms or denies my opinions, but that does not effect the opinions that i share if asked by those not privy to the same confidential information. I will not lie. and thus sometimes may chose silence or feigned ignorance. I may at times nudge people to talk together, or suggest directions for investigation or development based on perceived shared goals. While i may at times be seen as an instigator I believe that my legacy is as a facilitator. I refrain from doing harm, except where it is necessary. I don’t take sides. I come to an opinion and choose where to stand. Wether that is in the same place as others is a consequence of that judgement. I will state as fact information I know to be untrue.