P-254 - Retrospective
Why do we work as we do? How might we improve? We look back at our process and practices in the large. We accidentally invent "Agile".
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-y023/python/-a250/254/

I kind of like this one. Big picture, metaphorically speaking.

One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

Watch Footage from New York City’s First Gay Pride March (1970)

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/watch-scenes-from-new-york-citys-first-pride-march-gay-and-proud-1970.html

Me da bastante vergüenza vivir en un país donde la gente vota por quitar derechos en vez de por más derechos.

Es de risa hacer campaña en vez de prometiendo más servicios, mejor calidad de vida, ... prometiendo eliminar todo el trabajo realizado. Y lo peor es que quienes votan eso votan para que otras personas se jodan. 🤷

Yo no entiendo nada pero es como si votas para que tu compañero cobre menos en vez de votar para cobrar un porcentaje más ambos.

La vida .

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