Charity Majors spent a year telling engineers they needed to learn to code to stay relevant. Then, in about three months, that advice became obsolete. In this conversation, she talks about why engineers who built careers on beautiful, readable code are struggling more than anyone else, why junior developers might have a hidden advantage right now, and what it means that nobod...

Since my genies seems to have all gone to rehab at the same time I have leisure (!?) to write this.

In the Expand phase, growth isn’t a curve. it’s a staircase. You grow until you approach a ceiling—some rate-limiting resource.

TCR is a TDD variant where, if the tests fail, you reset automatically to the last known good state. Poof. If the tests pass, you commit.

Can we use Skills to get the genie to work TCR-style? (All the coolest ideas are blends of 2 or more existing ideas.)

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When my pappy got old, his go-to topic of conversation was his health problems. I swore that would never be me. Yet here we are…

Several people watching my first episode of Still Burning asked about my shaking hands. Summary: I don’t know but it can’t be good.

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Pattern: The worse things get, the worse things get. Every time you try to intervene, it gets even worse.

Transformation: Map the effects & how they affect each other. Find the cycle with an even number of inhibitions. Go upstream & push one of the effects the opposite direction.

Okay, that’s an abstract brainful. But this is the most powerful tool I have ...