MastaDon ✅ @soaklord@octodon.social
I've got this story inside. One about the rise and fall of an organization and the leadership lessons that are inherent in the story. The problem is that if I tell it, the fallen will know exactly who they are. Hmm.. maybe @soaklord's fables as a way to tell the story as a parable instead of as the company itself.
Why is leadership so very undervalued as a craft or academic pursuit? Everyone assumes they'll be a great boss. Very few are.
My favorite nerd quote today from Reddit…
"It is through my will alone,
I set the mail in motion!
Through the stick of Chap
The lips acquire slick
The stamp acquires spit
and your letter arrives Wednesday morning!"
I think the next time I am in the post office, I will have to repeat this as a mantra while standing in line.
So much this!!! http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
Strava was kind enough to recognize that I should be working harder and decided to discount (delete) 4 miles of my lunchtime ride. That way, I don’t get over confident in just how much effort I have put forth today.
How is @greatdismal not on here yet? This appears to be the perfect place for William Gibson to reside socially.
Rail guns use electromagnetic pulses to propel an object up to high speeds. But I keep wondering if the same principle might work for propelling people movers at lower speeds. (same energy, higher mass, lower velocities)
I love the simplicity of this statement! (Came across it in a BBC article about the fall of western civilization)
Eventually, investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy reaches a point of diminishing returns.
Article if anyone's interested:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse
I think I have become manic in my complacency and desire for chaos. Half the time I am happy for the current status to endure, the other half the time, I am wanting change for the sake of change.
Why do I always return from my vacations feeling like I need a vacation?
Ready, aim...
@PhotonQyv Your display name made me think of a book I read 30 years ago and have not often thought of. Is it by any chance a reference to a Piers Anthony novel?
A surprisingly wonderful side effect of tooting v. tweetering is that with 500 characters, I can make an attempt at proper grammar.
In almost every company I have worked for, I have fought to get pay rises for the Customer Service team as they are so critical to operations. In every single company, it was a long, drawn out battle and never a given. When you train and retain the best, you get passionate customers. The best products in the world are easily undermined by a bad customer experience, so if you aren't the best you REALLY can't afford to disregard your customers.
I find it... perhaps apropos that within a month of Virgin America going tits up, United assaults a paying passenger to give space to someone who did not pay for a ticket. Customer Service first, always, what is so hard to understand? Customer Service IS your profit center, never a cost center.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
In my github feature request, I just made the case for a filter that allows me to filter anything Kardashian related from my personal view of the federated timeline. Someone please make this happen!
Off for a nice spicy curry!
Wow... Just realized that Mastadon instances have the potential to become the ultimate echo chambers. I think that scares me to my core.
It is strange to search for hashtags and get no responses. I don't think I've been on a social platform where three searches in a row resulted in nothing in at least a decade.
