Website builder. Cyclist. Recovering musician. Anti-social socialist. Corporate lackey.
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Malcolm Young retweeted
I used to think that SAFe, though not in the least agile, was better than chaos. I'm beginning to reconsider that last part.
Malcolm Young retweeted
I guess we’re going to see lots of this kind of gaslighting in an attempt to suggest there are real benefits to Brexit.
Tampons have been zero rated in Ireland - which last time I checked is in the EU - for decades. The UK gov chose not to do the same. – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Malcolm Young retweeted
What we learned in 2020? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because heath is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they’re being paid. That we live in a society, not an economy.
Malcolm Young retweeted
Most organizations have no concept of how fucked up most organizations are.
Malcolm Young retweeted
1. A small business began selling camera tripods on Amazon
2. It reached $3.5 million in sales, 0.001% of Amazon's revenue
3. Amazon copied the tripods exactly and sold them as AmazonBasics tripods
4. Amazon banned the tripod company from Amazon
wsj.com/articles/amazon-comp…
Malcolm Young retweeted
With all the “2020 in review” inspirational posts coming up, consider this your kind reminder that if you did nothing else but power through this crappy year, you’ve already done enough. Not every year needs to be a life-changer—especially when surviving a pandemic. It’s okay. 💚
Malcolm Young retweeted
If, like me, your mental health is in the worst shape it’s ever been in, here’s some advice a friend gave to me the other day that stuck: “you don’t have to fix or fight this, you just have to exist in it for a bit.”
Today I committed to doing that and it honestly did help. 1/2
Malcolm Young retweeted
I've started allowing myself to take an hour's walk nearly every working day which I'm calling "strategic thinking time". It's made a huge impact on my ability to reason about significant tech and scaling challenges, plan with critical focus, and improved my mental health.
Malcolm Young retweeted
I don't mind at all having to pay taxes when the poor can't. What really pisses me off is having to pay taxes when the rich won't.
Malcolm Young retweeted
estimating software is like estimating wedding dresses except all you've got to work with is one of those 13th century pictures of an animal only drawn from a description io9.gizmodo.com/how-european…
Malcolm Young retweeted
As part of driving tests, people should be made to cycle on a road, or cross a busy road on foot. This will give them some understanding of how deadly their motorised killing machine could be if they drive it like a twat.
Malcolm Young retweeted
"57 channels and nothing on" except literally every movie and tv show ever produced is available on demand and I want to watch none of them.
Malcolm Young retweeted
I promise you: everything you fear would happen under communism is already happening now under capitalism.
All of it.
Malcolm Young retweeted
#CyberAlarm: An independent security review... and why you should avoid it.
paul.reviews/cyberalarm-an-i…
#security #openvas #riskmanagement
Malcolm Young retweeted
Get in the sea.
As ever, it is easy to focus tax changes on middle earners but ignore the mega-corporations contributing very little.
The argument that because your expenses have gone down, you should pay more tax is quite difficult (insulting to say remote workers
Staff who work from home after pandemic 'should pay more tax' theguardian.com/business/202…
Malcolm Young retweeted
I quite like the idea of a "Digital Commute" from
@mak0ski. Essentially you schedule some transition time at the start and the end of the day to ease in and out of your working mindset/demeanour.
makeworkbetter.substack.com/…