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Escalation isn’t a dirty word. Sometimes teams disagree because they have different priorities or weigh tradeoffs differently.

Asking leadership to weigh in with guidance is the right thing to do. Your job is to frame the options and reason for misalignment.

Indecision kills.

This is a fascinating essay about the elements of good conversation and the difference between “takers” who keep things going, “givers” who tend to ask a lot of questions, and how the wrong match-up can cause a conversation to stall. Includes good advice backed up by tons of academic research. This is one to save and revisit often. https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

Experimental History

@doga

I also remember that NYTimes had similar problem, but there the issue was more that the Times was posting too much that only a handful got impressions.

And of course there's the issue of which countries follow Musk: if he has 50M followers outside US, they might filter him out due to language

@doga Besides the popcorn of people telling Musk he's jumped the shark, I thought the observation that his tweets only get 10K impressions compared to followers interesting. Reminded me of your observation that ML pipeline was missing a bunch of impressions / engagement.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

Platformer

Even though they're technically not contradictory, I'm not sure how to reconcile the following two things:

1. Nearly every time an outsider says that people are doing X stupidly and could do way better, they're wrong for boring reasons that are obvious to any insider.

2. It seems fairly easy* to find huge wins as an outsider.

At some level, maybe this is like https://danluu.com/p95-skill/, where the median player in an objective-based game regularly loses because they don't touch the objective, but

95%-ile isn't that good

Learning that "five gooolden riings" is not in fact referring to 5 literal golden rings, but to five ring-necked pheasants, aka more birds