Nat Bennett

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I make computers do things & also jokes & pictures

Professionally, I'm a sort of wandering TDD-and-good-infrastructure ronin. I show up, fight the bandits in your CI, and leave town before anyone can force duty & honor into a conflict that will inevitably destroy me.

Personally, I'm a katamari damacy ball of hobbies but current interests include #StarTrek #Torchbearer #Photography #Knitting #Cooking #Baking #Lifting #Walking #MarvelSnap #Plants #Geology #California #Tea

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Show threadNat BennettJun 30, 2024

@ratkins @alpha Anyway my current take is that "doing XP" is mostly orthogonal to business success and that's fine, we should do it anyway.

"Making things well" is inherently valuable and XP lets us make things well without trading off time.

Show threadNat BennettJun 30, 2024

@ratkins @alpha I got kind of hung up on figuring out how much the VMware acquisition was just a direct result of a single analyst and the way he framed a single guidance cut.

Like it is *possible* that the acquisition mostly happened because of this one guy, which would be incredible if true, but I need to do more research, and what his up to now is too good to publish the rest of it without including that detail.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/21/tesla-is-the-most-undervalued-ai-play-in-the-market-says-wedbushs-dan-ives.html

Tesla is the most undervalued AI play in the market, says Wedbush's Dan Ives

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Show threadNat BennettJun 30, 2024
@ratkins @alpha Funnily enough this post was a replacement for a longer and weirder post about how people reason about software methodology based on equity price movements, which produces all kinds of weird results because of how many other factors there are in equity prices.
Nat BennettJun 29, 2024
sanae   (SF)Jun 28, 2024
I think it's really helpful to think of the things that you personally can do and have control over. Especially on social media it can be easy to think of alternately worrying about the state of the world, and imagining solutions that you hope other people implement, as being things that can influence the real world. But they don't.
Nat BennettJun 28, 2024
Lorin Hochstein Jun 25, 2024

Good post by @nat. The term I’ve heard for this is “outcome bias” (judging decisions based on knowing the outcome instead of judging them based on the information people had at the time).

https://www.simplermachines.com/dont-be-results-oriented/

Don't be results-oriented

The alternative to results-oriented thinking is process-oriented thinking. With process-oriented thinking, your focus is on the quality of the decisions that produce the result – the part of the process that you can control, instead of the random variables that you don't control.

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Show threadNat BennettJun 25, 2024
@alpha This is great, thanks.
Show threadNat BennettJun 22, 2024
@ratkins Interesting! What did you get from your manager? What was your experience level when you joined?
Nat BennettJun 22, 2024
@christa @alpha Interesting! What did you get from your manager? What was your experience level when you joined?
Nat BennettJun 9, 2024
@CStamp Just made an appointment, there's a donation center basically around the corner. Thanks for the nudge.
Nat BennettJun 8, 2024

@dev @dan @redmp yeah that's basically the standard for "convenient via BART" from the east bay

many nice foods there! Robin, Smuggler's Cove, Dumpling Home