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Now the real advantage of tracing to me is it comes out of the box with the idea of sampling. It is a debugging and troubleshooting tool, not something with compliance or business uses. Therefore it hasn't become completely mucked up with people jamming all sorts of weird requirements in there over time. You can very safely sample because its only for developer troubleshooting.

Monitoring Is a Pain

Mathew Duggan

The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to help us move closer to what we care about in life. From an ACT perspective, the main thing that gets in the way of this is when our behavior becomes primarily about avoidance. When we’re focused on avoiding difficult thoughts and feelings, we’re not focused on moving toward what we care about.

How to Do Hard Things

Casey Rosengren

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

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