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chad fowler
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chad fowler
@chadfowler
programmer, general partner @blueyard, author of upcoming book Crypto & Web3: The Good Parts. prev @wunderlist, @microsoft, @rubycentral, @rubyconf @railsconf
- The older I get, the more I realize the biggest problem to solve in tech is to get people to stop making things harder than they have to be.
- Most of what good management consists of can be boiled down to this simple idea: a manager's job is to create a context in which each team member is inspired and empowered to do their best work. It's shocking out far from reach this is for many managers.
- Replying to @realDonaldTrumpI’ve seen movies about this, but they weren’t set in the USA.
- The more time I spend exploring the state of front end web development the more I’m amazed that the majority of web sites work at all.
- I used to know how to do things but didn't understand how they fundamentally work. Now I understand how things fundamentally work, but I don't know how to do things.
- Instead of optimizing for code that can live a long, healthy life, optimize for constantly destroying and replacing code inside systems that live a long healthy life. Code should be impermanent by design. Code is fuel.I wrote this article on immutable infrastructure almost 5 years ago now. Now that immutable infrastructure has caught on, I think we should focus more on the disposable components part of the message. chadfowler.com/2013/06/23/imm…
- New experience in public speaking today: dumped my water bottle onto the laptop mid-demo and had to clean it up and turn the laptop upside down to dry out while I finished the talk 😂
- One of the best things I've learned as I've aged: no argument is worth having on the internet
- It took me years to really learn this: if someone talks to you in technical terms such that you can't follow or understand, it's almost definitely not your fault. It's theirs. They're either incapable of explaining the concepts, don't care if you understand or are afraid of
- As a manager, one of the best gifts one of your team members can give you is to ask for a one on one meeting to talk about something that's important to them. Managers, show them appreciation. Everyone else, don't be afraid of wasting your leader's time.
- After watching @google's phone call demos, I'm imagining a time when all conference calls are filled with bot proxies, none admitting to not be the person invited to the meeting. Nothing will be accomplished except attendance. The real life manifestation of proof of work.
- Almost 20 years ago I picked up a little fringe programming language from Japan that no one had heard of, and it and its community enhanced my life in ways that are not enumerable. Thank you @yukihiro_matz and happy #ruby25th
- Hey everybody, please learn markdown and use it to write text files instead of creating files in heavy formats using heavy tools which excel at doing something other than e.g. transmitting words to your colleagues. Thank you. ❤️
