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Analytics professional and dad joke enthusiast; I lead a business analytics team for Microsoft Advertising, but I tend to post about everything except work; @nathanrich on most other platforms.
The emotional roller coaster of working in tech these days.

A great reminder that the purpose of a tech stack is to deliver value to your customers and your business. When companies talk more about their tech stack than what it does for customers then they don’t have a business.

This is a hallmark of web3 & crypto
https://hoho.com/posts/your-stack-is-not-the-product/

Your tech stack is not the product

Early stage technology decisions must be, uncomfortably, a means to an end.

Will forever love that, immediately upon learning they were eliminated from the playoffs, the Lions went out and beat the Packers in Green Bay *to advance the team that had just knocked them out of the playoffs* solely out of pure spite. Much respect from #Seahawks fans.
I really like this idea.
absence of QT function makes covering news events here really difficult, fwiw

algorithmic choices I would like to experiment with in my mastodon feed:

1. show me boosts, but hide any particular boost that I've seen more than 2 times

2. show me responses in context of the thread... i.e. no click needed to figure out the context

3. not strictly part of the feed logic, but I'd love quote toots. Because I want to boost but with some context around why I find something interesting

FDA looking at the application for Elon to put microchips in people's brains and then at his Twitter account and then back at the application