Systems consultant, writer, cat appreciator
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Last Notes npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora @nprofile…d6h6 this sounds familiar - the newsletter pace preventing you from thinking about bigger questions while also not helping with business. One pattern in my life is avoiding bigger questions by inventing work for myself that doesn't help me (and often doesn't help others). Stopping that was really hard and admire you for the newsletter pause npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Sick, just learned that there's a handheld consumer Geiger counter sensitive enough to do radioisotope spectrometry for €200 - €600???? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora I will never not be annoyed by staring at my computer screen trying to figure something out for 20 minutes, then getting up to get a drink and understanding it 60 seconds later npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora @npub1lks…a4mq happy to hear you are following the systems hacker growth path in one of the two approved directions (hacker -> homesteader or homesteader-> hacker) npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Oh haha maybe I should get some people to poke at my new business website *before* I send an important email to a new business contact? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora How Sovereign Do You Want To Be? by @npub1hxf…g8qu npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Remember that blog post "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it. npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora I love having friends visit, in part because they remind me of how lovely Amsterdam is. This week: I can take a walk along the edge of the water at sunset and all I hear is birds chirping and an occasional gentle murmur as we pass people sitting on benches also watching the sunset. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud. npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Academic journals can price gouge because universities are relieved to be able to outsource performance reviews of PhD students and faculty to them npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration... npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora I am abandoning the unusable WordPress editing experience for some kind of static website generator. I need only a very basic set of web pages and maybe a blog. What's your favorite and why? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Have you ever hired a consultant, or been hired as a consultant, to fix a technical problem that turned out to be a non-technical problem? If so, what do you think the early warning signs were? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora One way to be a 10x engineer is to make the engineers around you 90% less productive npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora @npub1grx…uxfe are you genuinely unaware of The Bad Space? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora I laugh/cry every time I see people complaining that the volunteer organizer of a blocklist compilation isn’t polite or collegial or nice. I’ve been in the “business” of fighting harassment and discrimination for a long time and news flash: the people who do this stuff are not happy fun get-along pleasant people! If we were, we wouldn’t do things that make the nazis mad. Creating an annotated blocklist sourced from a variety of instances makes the nazis super mad! What “nice” person does that? npub18envvfqj3m5k0jz6tf6ws2z0kksz3qk3t2rkcfqjtu59wqj7mjfsd95v4e Valerie Aurora Bike-friendly infrastructure goes hand in hand with public transit, which can and should be wheelchair accessible, much more than taxis or private cars. And then e-bikes add a whole class of people who can’t comfortably ride a regular bike but aren’t ready to use a mobility scooter to the group of people who can zip around the city independently. I’ve seen so many disability accommodations on bikes here, even bikes driven by arm power as well as recumbent and tricycle bikes.
