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massaman··on Optimal Stopping
Can't stop, won't stop, Rocafella Records cause, We get down baby, we get down baby
massaman··on Kraken Is Down
What's Kraken?
massaman··on Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch
Somewhere in your company hiring queue is a resume with:

Strengths: Architecting risk management systems

Weaknesses: Sometimes I click on things to see what happens

massaman··on Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch
From the blameful-postmortem:

Q. Why did we click `Send $900M?` A. Not sure. Tom felt all clicky-clicky, so he clicked it.

Q. Why did we hire Tom? A. Also not sure. [Action Item: Fire Tom]

massaman··on Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)
Also top of mind- "Why you will revive an article from 4 years ago..."
massaman··on Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub
The only known countermeasure is a Bedazzler vest.
massaman··on How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book
This reminds me of that time I made $200 on a short comment in HackerNews by pretending I was doing an hour of coding.
massaman··on Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Suppose Zoom exits China (1.39B potential users) in response. This would almost certainly constitute a breach of fiduciary duty.

Censorship is legal. Failing to act in the best interest of shareholders is not.

Perhaps legislators should stick to writing laws?

massaman··on Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
Never joke about firing people.

It's much better to joke about running out of funding. Knowing that everyone will lose their jobs together builds a sense of community and shared mission.

massaman··on When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated
I'm hoping Amazon goes public soon.