i got lucky at my last shop. b2b place for like 2x other customer companies. eng manager person (who was also like 3x other managers :/ ) let everything get super broken and unstable.
when i took lead of eng it was quite an easy path to making it clear stability was critical. slow everything down and actually do QA. customer became super happy because basically 3x releases went out with minimal bugs/tweaks required. “users don’t want broken changes immediately, they want working changes every so often” was my spiel etc etc.
unfortunately it was impossible to convince people about that until they screwed it all up. i still struggle to let things “get bad so they can get good”, but am aware of the lesson today at least.
tl;dr sometimes you gotta let people break things so badly that they become open to another way
You put effort into writing an unnecessary tldr on a short post, but couldn't be bothered to properly Capitalize your sentences in order to ensure the readability.
If a person tries to communicate, but his stylistic choice of laziness (his own admission!) gets in the way of delivering his message, it is very tangibly useful information to tell, so that the writing effort could be better optimized for effect.
I wasn't even demanding/telling him what to do. I simply shared my observation, but it's up to him to decide if he wants to communicate better. Information and understanding is power.
Your choice. The worst thing is not knowing ("Why are not posts with reasonable opinions are being downvoted and not engaged with?"). Now you know (you are welcome) and it's your choice what to do with that information.
so you’re not a CTO according to your own definition of what a CTO does then.
my previous employment i was “lead engineer”. i got to pick that title. had a 1 day per week part timer reporting to me. similar company description. making technical decisions. strategy meetings with CEO and founder etc.
i was not a lead engineer and ive since changed my linkedin page/cv to just say “engineer”. who or what was i leading? a contractor in ukraine who did work for us one day a week? nah, need a team (ie more than 1) to be able to lead.
do the brave thing and call bullshit on yourself. this is something good leaders do.
People here want "CTOs" to be brave enough to call bullshit on their "CTO-hood" but nobody here is brave enough to call bullshit on the title itself, which is the truer and more important observation.
once i learn to accept (grateful receipt of) myself (who i am, what i’ve done, what’s been done to me, what i do today) then it’s easier to accept (grateful receipt of) other people (who they are etc).
compassion is possibly apt too
> Deep awareness of the suffering of another accompanied by the wish to relieve it
I mean, the first three cases are just attempting to turn dynamic into static typed... right? maybe just don't aim for uber-safety in a dynamically typed language? :shrugs:
(I used to look out for kaparthy's papers ten years ago... i tend to let out an audible sigh when i see his name today)
You shouldn't have the same expectations from a person's tweet as you would from a paper. I don't see any issue with high profile people who are careful in their professional work, putting less thought-through output on social media. At least as long as they don't intentionally/negligently spreading misinformation, which I've never seen Karpathy do.
I for one really enjoy both his longer form work and his shorter takes.
some of the artists below are not strictly speaking ambient as in brian eno kind of ambient
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