What Can You See from Here?
summary
Argument: your immediate context warps priorities and fuels pointless fights; concrete example: bike-shedding origin is a 1999 FreeBSD thread about sleep handling that ballooned into months of attention. Practical fixes: keep long-term data (author tracks migrations by write weekly metric CSV and plotting), add five-year dashboard views so trends (e.g., 263,000 layoffs in 2023, ~50,000 in 2024) and slow degradations become visible, and invest in detection, mobilization, diagnosis, resolution and learning across teams.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:30Pointless internet fights
- 8:10Zooming in distorts
- 12:27Solving small problems
- 16:02Arguing over words
- 20:18Company culture blind spots
- 23:25Arguing with same journey
- 25:52Tech subcultures
- 31:35Diverse perspectives
- 33:00Slow tech change
- 36:55Tech’s evolving role
- 40:51Beyond business value
- 44:42Future not inevitable
- 46:28Staying resilient
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