GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸

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I’m a lifelong Marylander born to Jamaican parents in 1974. I’m a husband and father of twin 7-year-olds (boy, girl). I used to write software for a living, but now I lead and grow individual software engineers and teams. I’m a 2-time University of Maryland graduate (computer science, MBA). I still play with LEGO.
Websitehttps://www.genxjamerican.com
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LocationMontgomery County, MD
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Casey NewtonFeb 15, 2023
Phenomenal essay from a recently departed ex-Googler on the systemic forces that enforce mediocrity within the product organization https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
The maze is in the mouse - Praveen Seshadri - Medium

What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.

Medium
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Casey NewtonFeb 15, 2023

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

Platformer
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Max KennerlyFeb 14, 2023

This article is a good starting point for the East Palestine derailment. (Gift link, anyone can read.)

The info circulating on social media has been suboptimal, to say the least. Grab a cup of coffee and let's go over everything from vinyl chloride to electronic brake regulations.

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https://www.nytimes.com/article/ohio-train-derailment.html?unlocked_article_code=QAUX9RHyBl1b9fUvtoaowDVNQ7pnrrwPkArV4od2eHAxdIsqcvZ_du1RQBRo3vGRWv9KKJjCRbz1pdFxA4DMMuRrDEHjsdrLTbrI7YtViCmAVWuw9Y-u-AZEByM_eHO1TC74FTlPfvK4xeXnboaKa83KmBMqXil2Ks4M5Cx67bNIDv4AGkYqQTG8qKHa8upQx9JrAraht717TuVyEgAnpdpOuB3K21JY4MXh-70VgPkCUbp6CxfvYDkqeuMjrKhUkOPAS6Ew82vrs1tupq0pEkaNXmwSju_YyTFYWegxNvNVILvuLNy-ZNp06pY2YCcpqnNdcA&smid=url-share

Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio: What We Know

When a train derailed in the village of East Palestine on Feb. 3, it set off evacuation orders, a chemical scare and a federal investigation.

The New York Times
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Talia LavinFeb 15, 2023
RT @stevanzetti
Nazis say they intend to meet up in Dallas in March. The last time they announced similar plans, they met up in a small town two hours east of Dallas called DeKalb, where antifascists spied on them using a surveillance drone. I suspect something similar will happen in March.
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Show threadMax KennerlyFeb 14, 2023

Would the electric braking regulation have stopped/limited this? No—because it wouldn't have even applied to this train, it wasn't carrying enough hazardous cargo. Sure, it had carcinogenic fuel-air bombs and literal poisons, but not enough of them. Need 35 tanks for that.

Which is infuriating. None of this hazardous cargo should ever be transported in cheap DOT111 tanks or on trains with air brakes—much less both, as here. We don't need the old regulation; we need something far more strict.
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GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Pete Prodoehl 🍕Feb 15, 2023

Psst. Hey you, remember that blog of yours? I looked at it. You last updated it in 2018 or maybe 2015. I dunno. it's been a while.

Things have changed since then…

We’re (re)building the Open Web.

Join us.

Publish a blog post.

Don’t post things on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Fuck that corporate shit and write it in your own home!

#mastodon #fediverse #indieWeb #rss #open

GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Laura CassandraFeb 15, 2023
#ValentinesDay
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Dare ObasanjoFeb 15, 2023

“Google has 175,000+ capable and well-compensated employees who get very little done quarter over quarter, year over year. Like mice, they are trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews,… and reorgs”

https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a

The maze is in the mouse - Praveen Seshadri - Medium

What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.

Medium
GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
Show threadDare ObasanjoFeb 15, 2023

Every big tech company hits this point. The remarkable thing about Satya Nadella is that he pulled Microsoft out of this malaise.

The question is whether Sundar is the right person to do the same for Google.

GenXJamerican 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Feb 15, 2023
MJ MuseFeb 14, 2023
MSU Student Who Also Survived Sandy Hook Demands Change On Gun Violence | HuffPost Latest News https://www.huffpost.com/entry/msu-student-who-also-survived-sandy-hook-demands-change-on-gun-violence_n_63eba255e4b0255caaee2a77 U.S. NEWS
#GUNVIOLENCE
#MASSSHOOTINGS
#MICHIGANSTATEUNIVERSITY
MSU Student Who Also Survived Sandy Hook Demands Change On Gun Violence
A 21-year-old woman recalled the lingering effects of enduring the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting in a viral social media post
MSU Student Who Also Survived Sandy Hook Demands Change On Gun Violence

A 21-year-old woman recalled the lingering effects of enduring the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting in a viral social media post.

HuffPost