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by jondlm 7d ago
I really liked the article. Thanks for sharing! Here's my alternate title: people are insane, software reveals it. Insane feels too strong, though. I believe people make sense. We just have this crazy ability to fool ourselves by spinn
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by jondlm 15d ago
This gave me a hearty laugh!
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by jondlm 15d ago
I've been carrying one of his poems around in my pocket recently. I'll leave it here for y'all. Maybe it'll find someone else as it found me when I needed it most: > To go in the dark with a light is to know the light
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by jondlm 15d ago
A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my li
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by jondlm 24d ago
Good article! I agree that curiosity is a wonderful place to land. However, I think putting anger and curiosity on two levels can be a subtle trap. It can lead to diminishing the importance of anger. They’re all just emotions; just appearan
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Episode 2: Life After Stripe(jondlm.github.io)
1 points by jondlm 26d ago|0 comments
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Why Do I Work?(jondlm.github.io)
3 points by jondlm 27d ago|1 comments
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by jondlm 27d ago
This is a follow up post to the last post I wrote about quitting Stripe a few years ago. I hope you enjoy! Many thanks to fnordpiglet.
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by jondlm 3mo ago
You're not wrong. I also think it's a trap to think they're in a fundamentally different category than we are. Yes, the blast radius of their harm can be enormous. _And_ they're humans like you and me. Likely hiding deep
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by jondlm 3mo ago
> I think that CEOs of those companies are ethically challenged people, narcissists and sociopaths. Likely true in many cases! > there is no evil emerging in big systems That's a very definitive statement! What brings you to the
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by jondlm 3mo ago
I did say "ostensibly" ;) Agreed that power nearly always corrupts. It does so in often subtle and slow shifts. In general we have a paucity of leaders who wield their power on behalf of the oppressed. The truth is that the "
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by jondlm 3mo ago
This... this... this! This resonates soooo deeply with me. The wild thing is that these tech "systems" (aka companies) are made up of ostensibly good people. It's often impossible to look at individual people and say, "t
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by jondlm 1y ago
I loved this article. Thank you for sharing it. I felt it put words to an experience I wrote about learning to "play" the piano: https://jondlm.github.io/website/blog/the_joy_of_discovery/ Cheers to
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Asking better questions with mutation testing(notashelf.dev)
1 points by jondlm 1y ago|0 comments
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by jondlm 1y ago
The topic of this article felt familiar to me. It's similar to ideas in IFS: internal family systems. IFS also uses control systems to describe our internal landscape. If the concept of multiplicity (we humans being a system of smaller
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The Joy of Discovery(jondlm.github.io)
1 points by jondlm 2y ago|0 comments
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by jondlm 2y ago
Hey Noj! Thanks! I certainly am getting some good rest. Things aren't as bleak as they may appear from my article.
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by jondlm 2y ago
It wasn't. It's the painful truth of how I felt. I'm not saying it's good. In fact, it's _very bad_.
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by jondlm 2y ago
Thank you for the kind comment :)
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by jondlm 2y ago
I completely agree. I didn't talk about it in the post but I have done a lot of therapy over the last couple years. I'm painfully aware of the ways I've projected my past pain onto my present. My attempt with the article was
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by jondlm 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Thankfully I'm not ground down to a nub. I've found a lot of support over the last few years outside of work.
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by jondlm 2y ago
My boss shared first and was very much clear about it being optional. People bring a lot of context into these conversations and make a lot of assumptions. There is a lot of nuance here and that's tough to sit with.
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by jondlm 2y ago
Your red flags are absolutely merited. I won't deny that.
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by jondlm 2y ago
Sorry to hear you've been burned by sharing.
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by jondlm 2y ago
That's rough. Sorry to hear you were pushed.
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by jondlm 2y ago
This is great. I absolutely agree that the best leaders gently invite and lead with appropriate vulnerability. They also don't mind if people say "no" either with words or body language.
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by jondlm 2y ago
I know I won't be able to convince everyone here, but I didn't feel pressured to share anything deeply personal. Some people on the team didn't. They weren't punished or looked down on. We were a tight-knit team before a
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My Time Working at Stripe(jondlm.github.io)
398 points by jondlm 2y ago|382 comments
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by jondlm 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai -- it takes a little work to setup but it's well worth the effort. It's keyboard centric and auto lays out windows nicely.