- Traveling back to Germany is always sad. Things are dysfunctional, slow, and inefficient. If you point out a problem, people tell you there's either no problem or no solution.
- The best and worst thing about working from an X office is that you can scroll your timeline and everyone thinks you're working.
- Imo, losing the "This is Google"-spirit was far more detrimental than any WFH rules. I attribute this largely to a deemphasis on engineering excellence at the leadership level towards non-technical MBA-type leadership. MBA-type leaders focus on MBA-type problems.Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Google lost its competitive edge when it decided that employees working from home and going home early was more important than winning
- First office commute at age 34. Time to treat myself to a full day of coding. The API is nearly done.
- New side quest just droppedToo many game studios that are owned by massive corporations. @xAI is going to start an AI game studio to make games great again!
- Replying to @cracked_engPerfect day to stare at a screen for 12 hours.
- "What do you do for a living?" is a terrible question to ask someone at a party. You have to be delighted at the answer, the "and you?" follow-up invites awkward comparisons, and it usually doesn't initiate an interesting longer conversation.
- Few things are as mentally painful as losing a game of chess. Zero-sum, perfect information. There's no one to blame but yourself.
- Pushing to prod on a Sunday morning >> English breakfast. But that's just me.
- I don't know where that strawberry meme comes from and at this point I'm too afraid to ask 🍓
