If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind wanders.
Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Breaking HipChat
Troubleshooting a scenario with a product with our team over HipChat but couldn’t remember exactly what was said. So I do a quick search for the words “nginx default” thinking I’d find that message where I’m sure somebody had described where our particular config for our “nginx default site” lived.
And I apparently broke HipChat.
Differing Views
It’s not a mechanical phenomenon, but it’s overwhelmingly true that the people who make it to decision-making positions (that is, what they think of as decision-making positions) are those who conform to the basic framework of the people who fundamentally own and run the society. That’s why you have a certain choice of technocratic managers and not some other choice of people equally or better capable of carrying out policies but have different ideas.
Noam Chomsky. (via vulturehooligan)
Preach.
(via expeditionarygeocaching)
Couple things come to mind:
1. This is probably why I’ll spend a lifetime doing technical jobs: engineering, development, architecture and such. It could be that I’m simply better at doing those things than I am at managing… or leading.
2. The quote from the Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams: “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
It’s not so bad after all.
The Wall
You can only let someone throw so many stones at you before you pick them all up. put them together, and build a wall to keep them from doing it again.
Chellise Work (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Guidance?
Sometimes I can’t tell if “Principal” architect and engineers are being sarcastic… or serious.
And in a technical profession, that’s frustration-inducing from anyone at that level.
the rest of me 