Sarah Milstein

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My first ever @medium post. And a story about managed databases and learning from incidents.

https://medium.com/@dbsmasher/exciting-author-q-a-experience-with-an-engineering-team-e51a1d282407

Literally the only thing I want to hear from media about the missing private submersible is this: how much is the attempted rescue costing in public dollars?

Are you leading or working on an engineering team that's 100% remote?

In the latest episode of the Engineer to Manager podcast, @sarahm shares her insights on leading a remote engineering team and the unique benefits of video meetings.

What's your take on remote engineering? Share your thoughts in the comments.

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxU8OzMYKhs-DXSgwpFfkpwDyV-r-pkSzx

✂️ Daily VP of Engineering Sarah Milstein, shares her perspective on the advantages of video meetings on the Engineer to Manager podcast.

37 seconds · Clipped by Daily · Original video "How can a non-technical gain RESPECT FROM ENGINEERS 🤔 Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at Daily" by Enginee...

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The Supreme Court has delayed its decision on mifepristone for a few days, which means the drug is still available. It's smart to order pills from aidaccess.org if you or somebody you love might need an abortion in the next few yrs

Mife has a shelf life of about 5 years; misoprostol, the other drug in the medication abortion protocol, has a shelf life of about 2 years

(When you buy them, you're technically buying for yourself--but on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog or unimpregnable)

Hello, @nytimes @washingtonpost: When there's a mass shooting, you don't have to quote Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Paul Rand saying that they're praying for the victims. Those quotes add nothing at all to the news

You can simply note that Republican lawmakers offered no new comments or actions in response to [whatever number] mass shooting in the US this year

Every team has agreements about how to work together--but most of the time, those agreements are silent

Whether your team has strong agreements (norms that team members find useful) or weak agreements (norms that team members go along with that they don’t like or find useful), you can improve them. I wrote a short guide on how to make your agreements explicit and stronger:

https://leaddev.com/team/how-team-agreements-promote-high-performance

How team agreements promote high performance

Cohesive teams share unspoken and spoken agreements which inform the way members interact and collaborate. If handled well, they help boost productivity.

New Media Ventures is looking to support community-centric media in 7 key states: Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania--all of which have a dangerous mix of well-financed misinformation campaigns, sustained voter suppression, and huge news deserts

Details on what they're doing and how you can apply: https://newmediaventures.org/voicesfordemocracy

It was also a piece that conflated "work ethic" with lack of worker protections. It didn't acknowledge that in a global economy, a lot of work is remote whether you work from home. It mentioned healthcare and childcare exactly zero times. Etc

Today, I'm still mad about the profound laziness of thinking and editing(?) it took to publish this

Yesterday, the NYT ran an opinion piece that tried to make this argument: American workers who are improving their quality of life by working from home are ruining the standard of living here. I'm not kidding. That was the central thesis
But I will say: when you are at the point of blaming SVB's collapse on remote work, you have well and truly shown your whole ass. The writer manages Bloomberg's money, and his explanation for the bank failure is that the execs didn't all work in the office all the time 🫠