Category: work
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Best or Worst
Who says it’s the worst way of doing things?
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Happy To Help
Ah, the joys of being the only one who can do a thing.
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Being Purposeful
The important thing is to solve the problems.
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Feedback Opportunity
Such a positive outlook about giving feedback. I’ve tried to keep this in mind ever since I heard it.
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Not Completely Terrible
The expectations are still so low…
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They Lied To Me?
All changes can be suspect, not just the ones we make on the platform side, you know?
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Suspiciously Good Sleep
So someone at work started saying how they had slept the whole night without any incidents while they were on-call, and everyone present immediately knew where they were going: the instant concern that there were actually incidents but they had missed the notifications.
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Like Winning The Lottery
One of the problems with having a really big service is that, after a point, million-to-one odd occurrences start to happen pretty frequently.
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Just Add More Threads
Hence why the real fix for “we’re running out of threads” is not always just “increase the thread pool.”
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Hulk Secret
Laying down on a prospective mattress with my spouse in the mattress store: Sales person: “And what about you, are you comfortable?” Me: “Oh, we don’t need to worry about me. I will be able to sleep.”