this is not a place of honor
kellan@fiasco.social
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A slow-moving org can nearly always be traced back to confusion around company goals.
It’s why @kellan always starts conversations with leaders who are eager to improve team efficiency by asking them about their communication style.
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Careers page is up! frame.io/careers
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Hey all, I’m hiring! Engineers and engineering managers (and also have product, design and marketing roles opening) to join Frame.io at Adobe. More details here: linkedin.com/posts/kellanem_…
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Oh hey! I’m doing a new thing and I’ve been so busy I haven’t posted about it. I’ve joined Adobe, leading engineering for their Frame.io product and building out a platform for creative collaboration.
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And as part of the new gig I’m going to my first giant trade show in … forever? Next month I’ll be in Vegas at NAB. If you there please say hi, I’d love to see you. Maybe you can teach me something about this industry I’ve joined. Official blog post: blog.frame.io/2023/03/21/vis…
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There was an unspoken fear among some tech leaders, certainly I had it, that the bar for leadership Twitter had been set so low at Twitter that even Musk could clear it. And that this would then be taken as evidence that the assholes had been right all along.
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Part 3 of "Software and its Discontents" is out. This builds on part 1 and 2 to talk about the economics of software in the Internet era, and how it's changed. laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/…
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"good management is critical to how organizations can effectively scale: that's what managers do, provide the critical resources that allow larger and larger groups of people to effectively collaborate" (shared in case it gets cut from the blog post)
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Published part 1 of my series on “Software and its Discontent, January 2023”. This is the intro post setting up the series covering what I found when I went and talked to people and the challenges and conflict in our industry at the moment laughingmeme.org//2023/01/16…
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Published part 2 of my series on "Software and its Discontents" -- this one looks at one of the most common themes I heard people talk about: complexity laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/…
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(Publishing this on MLK feels disrespectfully off topic but also I feel like a meditation on power and systems is very on topic)
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kellan@fiasco.social retweeted
Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.
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Silicon Valley has a deep epistemological commitment to the idea that truth and plausible sounding bullshit are functionally equivalent.
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