Teams suffers from one giant problem. There is a totally odd, but understandable from tech debt perspective, segregation between “chats” and “teams” which makes it practically impossible to find everything. It’s a fatal flaw. Slack is beautifully simple and effective in comparison. Also, the reminder feature on slack is extremely useful to me personally and I miss it dearly in teams.

Yes, in a world of dynamic virtual teams and cross cooperation across teams. «Teams» is an ancient construct

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”

Margaret Thatcher

(To which a clever friend of mine retorted: Because you know you can do nothing the next day)

When I was meditating regularly I found this easier to do. I had the presence of mind to notice I was rushing and slow down and focus on the details. I need to start meditating again.

It’s not pushy at all imo

Same thing happens every time a new hire joins the team. Lots of documentation is stale and needs updating as they onboard.

But that documentation shouldn’t need to be updated nearly every other day.

And Seveneves

OpenAI Clip python library fails because the model download is a hardcoded azure cdn url :(

100% this. There is a wonderful book called The Dorito Effect that goes into this in more detail.

Learning Elixir and Phoenix and getting the hang of functional programming. What a pleasure.

I’m currently reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden and it has given me a much improved perspective about why things like this are the way they are as a consequence of history and monetary policy. Very interesting.