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I'm really honored by this. And I think it's a great time to talk about how I got here.
Some folks may have noticed I disappeared from the tech world for a period. This is about what happened and how I recovered.
Going to talk about mental health. 🧵
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If you walk through the Common in the morning and appreciate the daily weather forecast, sports scores, and being wished a good day; this is Gilbert our town crier. #boston
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Today is Cinnamon’s Forever Home Day! 9 years with this sweet companion who has so important to me through these past few years. 😻
Does anyone here work in an engineering organization that has a "Definition Of Good"?
There's countless ways to solving a problem that may be technically correct, but not all of them are "good".
I know definitions of done and of ready. But what about good?
I literally signed up for community notes so I could make sure to demonetize dipshits like this.
Congratulations to America’s first Catholic Vice President
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Joe Biden was the first Catholic Vice President
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) retweeted
millennial men were too busy quoting anchorman and figuring out new, innovative ways to sack tap each other to get radicalized by the far right and I love them for that.
He has a mustache in the art but not the figure.
This is bullshit.
Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) retweeted
remember like two weeks ago when everyone was yelling at this guy for even bringing it up
There is nothing like this from the left that can build an alternate reality. It was amazing to me how suddenly half this country thought the economy was good in 2017 with no substantive change.
How do you deal with half the country living in a weird echo chamber?
Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) retweeted
As of today, can also find us in a place with bluer skies!
Is there a betting pool for when he pardons all the J6ers?
Worse, publicly target with prosecution the officer who (rightly) shot and killed that woman?
Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) retweeted
At the end of the day, the President is not just Head of Government, he or she is Head of State. He IS a moral expression of who we are. And though it breaks my heart to say it, this is who we are.
Cloud repatriation to me says some companies, mostly older enterprises, haven’t been able to reskill / upskill their workforce and think moving backwards technologically is the right answer.
You had problems before getting good engineers? Good luck now.
thenewstack.io/why-companies…
Previous to this Microsoft was seen in the tech industry as a dinosaur with products you just ignored.
So who is to say whether or not this change was good or not?
Newsletter: Microsoft is a cult driven by “The Growth Mindset,” a psuedo-science that informs recruitment, hiring, firing and promotion decisions, all while instructing employees and managers to generate performance reviews using hallucination-prone AI.
wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-…
Imagine the most unimaginative and unmotivated people who get mad when you push for new things.
They’re some of the most miserable coworkers I’ve ever had the displeasure of working with.