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I’ve often seen teams leading reliability efforts respond to the question of why their incident analysis efforts aren’t creating more reliable software by doubling down on metadata collection and heavily structured processes. I think of this as *incident legalism*. Incident legalism is when an incident response and analysis program—trying to better drive reliability improvements—becomes focused on compliance and loses empathy for the engineers and teams operating within the program’s processes.
Move past incident response to reliability · GitHub
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If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who doesn't value *the work* needed to fix it. They *might* value it being fixed, but of course no sane employee gives a shit about *that*. A sane employee cares whether *they* are valued.
People Can Read Their Manager's Mind
yosefk.com
One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked in The Big Short (movie edition) is Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. It has cranked out two issues a month since 1983. Grant’s is both for historical and brand positioning reasons heavily tied up with the personal brand of Jim Grant, and is stubbornly independent.
This is notable because there are two natural sizes for publishing businesses: boutique and gigantic.
BAM Is Now Reader-Supported
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
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