Edmund Fliski

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'It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.'
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Edmund FliskiMay 4
Effective yesterday, recruiters, you have one more reason not to call me anymore; proceed. Also, say hello from me to your mothers.
Show threadEdmund FliskiApr 19

When it's time to choose sides, take that of the victims, of the present or the past. Never let anyone tell you it isn't, wasn't your war. As long as the choice is yours.

They never had theirs.

Neither did the people of Gaza, Bucha, Aleppo, Sarajevo...

Edmund FliskiApr 19

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising, my hometown, on this day 83 years ago.

Still, these days "never again" sounds to my ear like a bitter joke.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Wikipedia

Show threadEdmund FliskiMar 12
And speaking of labelling, that one should surely have been tagged #sarcasm #sarcastic.
Edmund FliskiMar 11
Local Google recruiters use Google Gemini, too, and esp. for mass mailing. That thing has just hallucinated me my dream job there, sending chills down my spine, literally. Kudos in particular for labelling me as a "new talent."
Edmund FliskiFeb 25

Teams that can't learn from their own mistakes, that refuse to even admit something isn't right, are doomed to reproduce the mistakes, over and over, and each time at a greater scale, chances are. A cliché?

But you keep telling me not to talk about problems, to bring a solution. Now that's a cliché!

What if the only solution is to take a step back and think what we've just done? To think what we are doing—another cliché, but this one does age nicely.

Edmund FliskiFeb 14

Have you ever read William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies?'

Be sure to read it, or just read it one more time, anyway, and preferably before your next working week. Your Mondays at work, especially when in a corporate environment, are never gonna be the same again.

Edmund FliskiJan 21

"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all."
—Peter Drucker

Yeah, right. So, keep on scaling, guys. Pay no attention to the Yaatt.

Show threadEdmund FliskiJan 4

From her bio on Wikipedia:

"She was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 2014. She had spoken about the problems with health care funding and raised over $70,000 through GoFundMe in 2013 to fund her chemotherapy. Holzschlag was found dead at home in Tucson, Arizona, on September 5, 2023, at age 60."

Edmund FliskiJan 4

From my retweets, on this day 9 years ago:

"Serious illness in a freelancer in USA might as well be a poverty and death sentence, prolonged by ongoing agony of system & patch failures."

—Molly Holzschlag, freelancer (1963–2023)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Holzschlag

Molly Holzschlag - Wikipedia