Just found the reading materials from my first systems class. 😍 Pretty great list. I loved the class and many people are surprised that it didn’t involve any coding whatsoever.

(Sorry for the lack of alt text, it’s too long for Mastodon’s limits. The photos are of a bound book with the reading list replicated here: https://web.mit.edu/6.033/2007/wwwdocs/reference.html)

”Normalize saying >is that a furry thing< when someone say’s they’re an alpha”

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"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free."

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I've spent my whole career working with neurodivergent people in tech.

Here's to the people who thrive with interrupts, who work best when juggling four different things, are pretty great incident responders, and can code while talking on slack.

Here's to the people who need four uninterupted hours to get anything done, but what they get done is fantastic, and they have the in depth knowledge to explain nuances you didn't even know were there, making them the folk who find the long term remediations after incidents.

Here's to the people who take great joy in picking the lint out of a codebase because it's fun, who refactor for the challenge, who see bad process and ache to get changes in to reduce the friction.

Here's to the people who seem to know everyone, who reach across teams to tap experts who don't get the recognition others do, and work best when working WITH.

Y'all are amazing

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