Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Rapid growth. The product went from zero to 5 million users in around 12 months after announcing an invite-only beta. Small team. Bluesky was built with a small team of 3 engineers during the first year, and with 12 software engineers at the time of publication.
Life is too short to read a bad book. — James Joyce
Dropbox’s CEO on return to office (RTO): Workers aren’t ‘resources to control’ | Fortune All meetings must narrow in on the “three D’s” of discussion, debate, or decision-making …
How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? (across 5 years) (via xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? )
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. Donald Knuth (via When optimal matters )...
Productivity is measured by quantity against capacity. Effectivity is measured by value against effort. The paradox is that you can be very productive without being effective at all! Troels Richter Nice quote on productivity! – Get Everything Done