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interesting - how have you managed to deal with those? especially the fuzzy brain syndrome? has it also affected how performance and reporting is perceived by the managers? since moving goalposts and unclear agendas would also mean that it would affect performance in reports and project reviews


There is no cure for fuzzy brained managers, especially if they are friends with the upper managers.

I simply took minutes in meetings and presented requests to be signed by relevant managers. For the most part they declined. But I filed them anyway. Being a contractor sooner or later I declined to renew / extend my contract and moved on.


Since the face is smiling, maybe there can be a bit of leeway for their response times :p


what are you smoking up bro?!


I'll have what he's having


I guess another way to think about lead time in open source might be to gauge the overall project health: more active and engaged community that is. What do you think??


yea totally, in fact I felt these smaller creators have a great aesthetic to their videos - much slower than your usual heavily edited videos :)


Interesting read, I noticed the mention of very high cycle times, can an AI manager really speed up spotting issues with the quality a human engineering manager can? Or is the point that this makes the job much easier as opposed to replacing the EMs?


Thinking about causation versus correlation is crucial!

Makes me wonder, how often do people realize this only after making expensive decisions?

Would be interesting to hear stories from people who have experienced this first hand


any specifics on the marketing activities that you know of? blogs and seo does take time but pr campaigns etc and influencer campaigns can help fastrack that


One way that works moderately well is to mark certain topics as not interested when they are presented and like and watch the other topics for a longer time.

I've used the above to keep my YT landing page relatively clear of things I'm not interested in.

Once in a while it will suggest you a highly popular or interesting off topic item, but yea that is once in a while.

Basically what I'm saying is that we need to train their algorithm to our tastes through watching and marking things as not interested, don't show me this channel etc.


I do this time to time; but I also watch a lot of nonsense on the same account. Wish there were more controls to premium account.


was thinking of trying thunderbird - have you tried apple mail app or superhuman as well by any chance?


I don't have a Mac, what is Superhuman?


an email client that looks nice - apparently quite popular in youtuber land too lol


It cost me too much money to try, I am disabled and on a fixed income. I cannot tell how it would work, but it looks nice.


that's a whole different story too - storage is still manageable but taking up huge chunks of RAM means the daily usage can get affected easily.


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