Bob Freeman

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Media producer and maker. Woodworker. Cook. Filmmaker. Recording engineer. #maker #woodworking #video #audio #drummer #cooking #mixology
MottoEverything is a material. Everything is a tool.
With apologies to XKCD #303.
#woodworking #slacking

“Innovation is less about producing something new and more about enabling something new and important for customers.”

#claytonchristensen #innovation #productmanagement #jtbd

OH: “come to think of it, the one musical I really like, The Blues Brothers, is the one musical that demonstrates appropriate contempt for Nazis. That can't be a coincidence--“
Me, the only non-coder throughout the entire Fediverse, hanging with my Mastodon chums
Foot surgery has afforded me the unexpected opportunity to actually use some of those unmatched socks!

If these computers keep it up, I might just turn to #woodworking. Though I do still enjoy building #software like Zain Rizvi does in this post.

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/

Why Software Engineers like Woodworking

The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading, writing, had

Zain Rizvi
People who design APIs. I am begging you. It doesn't matter how "simple" or "intuitive" or "elegant" your API is. You need to include sample code.
I respect screaming babies on airplanes because they're the only ones providing honest feedback about the overall air travel experience

Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...