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We recently did some team training where they said “you haven’t joined a meeting until you’ve spoken” and suggested check-ins for every meeting.
Hughes Johnson’s suggestion is start with maybe just one word on how you are feeling, and then also end with a checkout, for example, are you happy with the decision we took?
One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf) paper, which examples a number of big-data platforms, and observes that many of them have the desirable property of scaling (near-)linearly with available hardware, but do so at the cost of being *ludicrously* less efficient than a tuned single-threaded implementation.
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
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The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it. Cherish it. The reason to make art is to innovate and self-express, show something new, share what’s inside, and communicate your singular perspective.
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