Brad "it is what it is" Whittington
@darb
Sapere aude. Used to be a CTO. Work with people to build effective org structures & technology strategy to support them. VP engineering http://dayrize.io
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It's time to announce the first Keynote of DjangoCon Europe 2022: "Scaling from One to Billions" by Daniel Roy Greenfeld (@pydanny) 🙌 🎫2022.djangocon.eu/tickets/
Meet Sugar, she doesn't like to be ridden. If Sugar is approached with a saddle she lyes down and pretends to be asleep. Sugar refuses to open her eyes until the riders leave.
"There is no evidence that non-citizens are in fact taking jobs and benefits from South Africans. Indeed, a recent World Bank report found that immigrants actually ‘generate jobs for locals’." dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0…
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Proposed legal and policy reform will entrench SA discrimination and xenophobia
%%excerpt%% There is no evidence that non-citizens are in fact taking jobs and benefits from South Africans. Indeed, a recent World Bank report found that immigrants actually ‘generate jobs for...
People with ADHD often have a lot of momentum; too much, some would say. If we're not moving, not doing something, it often takes us more energy than we have to get us moving. If we are moving, it often takes more energy than we have to stop
A country with about 70% to 80% black people yet you have less than 10% of your workers that are black? Nah something is up.
Please watch this short video and share with everyone you know who works in the fossil fuel industry. #NoNewOilOrGas #ShellKnew
This is a huge story. A senior safety consultant at @Shell has just quit via a mic drop email to Ben Van Beurden + 1400 employees over the “extreme harms” Shell is doing to the planet. More on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/posts/caroline…
Someone just referred to crypto currency as Dunning-Krugerands.
“fake it til you make it” is and always will be a horrible tactic and advice. don’t do that.
Opinion: If you scratch the surface, most of the “financial inclusion” offerings are just microloans that run on a digital platform with fees and interest rates that keep their users in perpetual debt slavery. zpr.io/2WEkBehgCizm
Reminder: we are running a public hackathon next week. It is remote-first and language-agnostic. Everybody is welcome! Idea: you write code that drives a cargo truck. We populate simulation with these trucks. Weeks pass in seconds. Final scores determine the winner.
This sort of data aggregation is a well developed and mature industry, not a new/nascent development. Here's a slide I had on these big/profitable data aggregators from 12 years ago (2010) slideshare.net/sensepost/onli…
New: companies selling location data on visits to abortion clinics. We know because we just bought some data for $160. Could be used to see clinics being visited by people from across state lines. Threatens both the patient and clinic. The risk is real. vice.com/en/article/m7v…
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Remember: it took four unsuccessful mambos before we got Mambo Number 5. Be patient with yourself.
Influence is one the biggest tools in my Principal Engineer toolbox. At some point, you move from “doing all the things” all by yourself to working with others to “do all the things” to asking questions and painting scenarios where people “do all the things” all by themselves.
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BREAKING: world's scientists show that without immediate, total system change the activities of the global growth economy will lead us to mass death and extinctions by around 2045
BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵
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