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I’ve been in San Francisco since the 27th for an internal Product Engineering alignment thing. Did get a chance to tourist on the first weekend though.

The rest of the week was in Oakland in a conference room all day. Fewer opportunities for photos.

Shit is still settling down after the second round of redundancies at my employer in six months. Was giving some feedback to a be of my recent hires who took over my old team. For six months I had been cleaning up the mess of the first round by being people manger for the twenty people who lost their old manager, in addition to the then I already had. In giving that feedback I really saw clearly how much collateral damage was inflicted on everyone. Not a single one of the people I needed to support got my best; there simply wasn’t enough butter for all the bread. So people have missed opportunities for personal growth, or been left anxious because they weren’t getting enough help or advice or feedback. People have left. People who stayed are probably scarred. I know I am.

Redundancies in the name of Line Must Go Up are a moral wrong.

I've had Apple Music since it launched in Australia and to this day it insists on showing Dolly Parton "Coat of Many Colours" in my Favourites playlist, but playing Hüsker Dü "Turn on the News", among other weird mis-catalogues.

I like to think both Dolly and Bob would love that.

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My Meetp group, Sydney Technology Leaders, now* has a mastodon account. @sydtechleaders@aus.social

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FWIW I don't celebrate the day but I also won't support capitalism by working on the day.

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There’s a lot more taken in my life these days #cooking

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If nothing else, cleaning up old files in S3 is helping me properly develop the muscle memory to spell “permanently”

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The article that became David Graeber's book, Bullshit Jobs

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