Steve Bennett

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🧑🏼‍💻 Engineering Director at Stash UK.
🗣 Co-admin of Engineering Manager Slack Group.

💬 Posting about engineering management, technical leadership, agile software development and thinking in systems.

🏃🏼‍♂️ Runner. #ReadingFC fan. New golfer. Occasional baker.

🕸 webhttps://stevebennett.co
💁🏼‍♂️ pronounshe/him
🗣 EM Slack Grouphttps://engmanagers.github.io/
💻 githubhttps://github.com/stebennett/
Steve BennettNov 11, 2022

Currently watching people use the product I’ve played a role in building and cringing inside on how they’re attempting to self-solve the issues they encounter. 😬

I love these sessions, but also… 😬

Steve BennettNov 11, 2022
Valerio De StefanoNov 10, 2022
THREAD ON TWITTER AND META LAYOFFS 🧵 I think we are underestimating the importance of these mass layoffs. These companies have long been heralded as the examples of a “future of work” that would gloriously work for high skill workers, especially those with a STEM background. Tech companies were the poster children for tech lobbyist and policymakers that championed a labour market where those high quality jobs, with high salaries, perks and…
Steve BennettNov 11, 2022
Ariadne Conill 🐰Nov 10, 2022
i have to say it is pretty fucked up that people are dogpiling on victims of institutional racism demanding they CW that shit, like read the fucking room guys, come on
Steve BennettNov 10, 2022

Using the FediFinder full CSV output to check out the websites of all the people I’ve followed on Twitter over the years. For all those people with a blog and RSS, thank you! 🙏🏻

This gives me another option for my continued learning away from the birdsite.

Not sure my inbox is as grateful for all the newsletters I’m also finding. 📨

Show threadSteve BennettNov 10, 2022
I’m such an idiot, I’ve figured it out.
I still follow some accounts on Twitter that I’ve stopped following here. I’m periodically running FediFinder to find accounts for people I follow on Twitter. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Steve BennettNov 10, 2022

Ok. Having no problem following accounts but I do seem to have issues unfollowing people on this instance. I click unfollow in the app or web, but I still see toots periodically appear in my timeline. 🤔

Any ideas from anyone on what I can check?

#MastodonAdmin

Steve BennettNov 10, 2022
I mean, I’m seeing this at 1.10pm but if you insist… 😴
Steve BennettNov 10, 2022
Martin Mazur 🟡Nov 10, 2022

“If you have dead wood in your company it got there one of two ways. You either hired dead wood OR you hired live wood AND KILLED IT!” - ⁦‪@cliffhazell

#agile ⁦‪#øredev #oredev2022

Steve BennettNov 10, 2022
Dan LuuNov 10, 2022

I find it odd how frequently leadership and HR lie when there appears to be little to no upside and a fairly large downside.

E.g., the recent FB layoffs. I was chatting with a friend of mine who's a very senior IC about the layoffs there and his read is that the worst thing about the layoffs was the misleading messaging from the company leading up to the layoffs in way that seems likely to permanently reduce trust in future leadership and HR messaging.

Steve BennettNov 10, 2022
Show threadChris TrottierNov 10, 2022

The entire social media industry is done. Every social media agency is obsolete.

Every piece of advice you ever received at a social media conference or event -- now worthless!