Dave

@DaveRead
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"Problem Solving is asking yes/no questions AT SCALE. Sometimes the difference between a senior engineer and a junior engineer is that the senior engineer can chop the problem in half very quickly by asking the right yes/no question." @shanselman
@garylake is that the new invited to an awards ceremony you’ve been nominated at, but charged a fee per attendee?
#Twitter denying themselves access to their own API? #PayUp!
👀 Elon seems…just really off.
There’s an inverse correlation between how much you architect code to be reusable and how much you actually end up reusing it.
No penalties for 'innocent' tax errors, HMRC boss says

Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC.

BBC News
it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area . otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete

TIL there's a technical name for why ideas happen in the shower: the "default mode network" is a pattern of brain activity, measurable using fMRI, that happens when we're unfocussed. When the brain goes into idle mode (reduced activity), this part of the brain actually becomes *more* active. What does the default mode network do? Research is ongoing, but part of it definitely seems to be making connections, which is associated with curiosity and creativity.

More here: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower

The science of why you have great ideas in the shower

It has nothing to do with getting clean—and everything to do with your state of mind.

National Geographic
So many years we fought with the Twitter API. I love that if you want an RSS of someone's Mastodon feed, you just add .rss at the end of their URL. Open Web, my friends. https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman.rss

Saving on office space costs will continue to win over insecure managers who ask employees to work in the office.

If you need people to physically be in the office to enforce their productivity then you have other problems that working from the office won’t fix.

Remote and hybrid work will win. It just makes too much sense for employers and employees.

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