DIRT Protocol

That said, the type of writing I've enjoyed reading the most are where the writer's thinking produced something that surprises you.

I find that in real life, considering your audience gets you halfway there. And most of what you write is to persuade, not to think.

I wish English class emphasized this following point for writing more heavily: Who is your audience? In school, y… https://t.co/LMxzjsIfCm

Most obviously, this applies to habit making or habit breaking in your life. But also, to improving your craft, ite… https://t.co/EfeCpUE49t

It's really important to put feedback loops in place in your life to change it in the direction you want it to go.

When I first started on Rails, it seemed to be the first piece of code I ran across with taste. Later on, I would s… https://t.co/cksy1bnCYK

And figure that if they just wait, they'll just pay more for a sure thing, because they can afford it. So maybe i… https://t.co/ezs2TvK5U7

Speaking naively, maybe you don't need certain classes of M&A or R&D if big cos could allow their decision makers t… https://t.co/gm20KMeCO3

Then it follows that big cos never benefit from innovation earlier in the adoption cycle, because the downside feel… https://t.co/8mrsvmZwkS

I was surprised when I initially learned about #6. It's really hard to tell success in the early stages, so investo… https://t.co/SqQyy7ODet

This is generally true as a first order approximation. When teaching beginners about wealth creation, this is what… https://t.co/enZxrUQ8V4

Programming languages should scale not just in terms of performance, but in terms of refactoring. What's a term for this? Scale invariant?

That way, you can start with flags, but then easily refactor and transition it to a state machine. Often times, we… https://t.co/zSHAMpAAj9

I've often wondered why there isn't a language native support for state machines. Sure, we have union types, but th… https://t.co/vDvzhP4B8k

Some programmers seem to have a high tolerance for slow tools, builds, and setups. I think you get lulled into it i… https://t.co/iUmfkupZVO

As an application programmer, I kinda resent the complexity of devops. Instead of paying down that complexity, we i… https://t.co/eh89KFZm9X

RT @michael_nielsen: @nomodes I love this piece from Tesler about a fundamental idea in design: _when_ we specify commands. Should actions…

Earlier, I talked about attaching ideas to their context. To clarify, I mean attaching the idea to the context of t… https://t.co/7wjAkbmXIB

So my question is, where is there room at a company for an even bigger story beyond engagement as a goal? How wou… https://t.co/cnT3AbdXgn

However, the story he told to galvanize his team about a news feed is one of engagement. While it may have been a s… https://t.co/0VNOmyBes2

I liked all the tactical tips for a PM. It reads like someone who had definitely been in the trenches. https://t.co/LJworPyl75

This is pretty neat. Software nowadays has little end-user customization because it'd much harder to build, support… https://t.co/6s14437S5H

Because through this understanding, you might learn a secret about the world. And it's through the secrets that you… https://t.co/UF0m19mk6B

But if someone is at all thoughtful, and says surprising things once in a while, chances are, they thought about it… https://t.co/vcdJ4rG1ga