raganwald 🍓 / is on Nostr

I am available to "make something wonderful." My superpower has been described as, "The best principal engineer of the product managers, and the best product manager of the principal engineers." Two-time leadership award winner despite having no direct reports.

ex-[PagerDuty, GitHub, Unspace, KL Group, Codestorm, ...]

Classic Blog: https://raganwald.com
Github: https://github.com/raganwald
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raganwald/
I hold a passport as: Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee

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2024-08-23 20:49:43

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Kidnapping people from the past to solve problems in the future? I think that was also the premise of the short story "Air Raid," the novel "Millennium," and its movie adaptation.
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2024-08-20 15:28:20

Testing, testing. Does this link work for you? Especially interested in hearing from people outside of the Apple ecosystem.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/04eOMq5DWxfaJoE4D_xN8P7yA

2024-08-18 14:15:53

Another absolute 🚀 from @npub1fdr…lvhs: “Disenshittify or Die.”
Too many 💥 quotes to list them all, but here are a few to whet your appetite.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess
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2024-08-15 13:47:12

Tech:
“Dafukk with these goddamn engineers always trying to rewrite our code in the latest shiny for the glorification of their résumés and conference speaker side hustles.”
Also tech:
“Sorry, although you have an amazing amount of experience shipping working software and generating massive returns for investors, you haven’t worked with the latest shiny and we simply don’t have the patience for you to get up to speed. No hire.”
🎩 @npub1xmf…7m86

2024-07-31 14:43:58

So yes I’m looking for a job, either 100% remote or hybrid in Ontario’s GTA.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raganwald/details/experience/
All the usual stuff is on my LinkedIn, but here’s my pitch:
I’ve lead product development teams from “finding product/market fit” to “hockey stick revenue growth” to “liquidity for investors.” Multiple times.
I foster agile, rapid iteration to gain traction rapidly. And then we transition to predictable value streams with strategic precision.
This won’t be my first goat rodeo.

2024-06-20 14:17:15

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"Poe's law (named after its author, Nathan Poe) is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views."

2024-06-20 12:30:18

Depressing. We aren’t even there yet, but the topic of discussion is “How can we turn abundance into scarcity, and then monopolize the scarcity?”
https://social.bau-ha.us/system/media_attachments/files/112/648/948/343/954/889/original/9fcd2065b0c8752a.webp

2024-06-08 14:35:19

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Oh, absolutely there's a difference. But at the same time, this is why my children aren’t allowed to cite Wikipedia in school essays: They are taught to treat Wikipedia as a summary, but follow its citations and quote “original sources.”
Which makes me ask t’his question: Could an LLM summarizer be devised that can list sources? I think “yes,” although maybe those would also be hallucinations!

2024-05-13 14:01:09

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I like to joke that when politicians try to run society like a business, they run it like a shitty, exploitative business trying to goose its next quarter numbers with a stock buyback at the expense of any investment in its workforce or future.