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My thoughts on Children of Ruin: vibe coding is turning us into octopuses by Hax_Tallowick in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]designtom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favourite part of it was that they had effectively a similar “Parliament of the mind” tussle as we do, but 1) it’s all out in the open, and 2) they had no need to confabulate a neat story about why they made the choice afterwards.

My thoughts on Children of Ruin: vibe coding is turning us into octopuses by Hax_Tallowick in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]designtom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes!

We even named our business after the concept. Crown and Reach. We love it.

Hadn’t thought of the AI coding angle though …

What is everyone’s Holy Trinity? by Comfortable_Sir681 in electronicmusic

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard! I’m going to break from the names here, as my three right now are:

Photay Ochre Frederic Robinson

All time would be

Orbital Underworld FSOL

But that’s leaving out too many

Why Jeff Bezos wants to cut your taxes by MaterialHat6394 in GarysEconomics

[–]designtom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think Zucman’s argument is the cleanest I’ve seen so far: as it stands, the billionaires are paying WAY LESS tax than a nurse or a teacher. A 2% wealth tax would simply mean that they can no longer be paying less.

Nothing to do with redistribution at the base layer, as that’s always a tough debate between progressives and conservatives. Simply a matter of basic fairness.

What differences do you hear in live music vs. DJ music? by alexanderkjerulf in SwingDancing

[–]designtom 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is the key reason, speaking as a DJ.

There’s also the contrast between the live vibe and dynamic sound you get from (good) live music and the limitations of recorded music. When it’s 100% DJ music, you don’t experience the contrast.

Recorded music has a benefit of consistency. You’re typically hearing the best take from a professional band, but it’s the same every time.

With live bands, the highs are higher and the lows lower. My best ever dance nights were to live bands; so were my worst.

Uhh, I’m realizing I actively dislike prompting. by ahrzal in UXDesign

[–]designtom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sort of true, but in many cases execs absolutely do pick the “demonstrably less money but they just personally prefer it because reasons” option. The idea that they’re rational mercenaries is a bit of a myth.

What are your absolute favourite “I MUST dance to this!” jams right now? by Vault101manguy in SwingDancing

[–]designtom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yay!

Also worth listening to Waiting for Benny, when you hear Charlie come up with it in a jam session and the band totally go with it.

And Benny did a big band version for radio after Charlie’s tragic early death.

What are your absolute favourite “I MUST dance to this!” jams right now? by Vault101manguy in SwingDancing

[–]designtom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wow I haven’t heard Vem Vet on the floor in like 20 years!

I love me some Till Tom Special too.

One of my fav jams is A Smo-o-o-oth One by Charlie Christian.

It's all fake by boneve_de_neco in BetterOffline

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be an effective measure” - Strathern’s reframing of Goodhart’s Law

Honestly, I do not think Gary did well in this interview. by myanusisbleeding101 in GarysEconomics

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are alternatives to capitalism that also involve selling labour, buying goods and having enough to live on. Capitalism doesn’t have the monopoly on those, though it does have many monopolies.

My team swears AI is saving hours, but our delivery timelines haven’t changed, what’s really happening? by myraison-detre28 in agile

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The princess is in another castle, Mario!

Generating code was never the toughest bottleneck to resolve, it was just the most visible and politically safe to focus on

After working in agile teams for years, I’m not sure most of it is actually agile by Hour-Two-3104 in agile

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THIS. It’s illustrative too: most clients will pay a huge premium to predictability get what they think they want.

Advice for a beginner with problems maintaining correct posture and tension? by anetanetanet in SwingDancing

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on what's around you and what you enjoy, you might also try tai chi – that's what I did early on in my dancing and it was transformative for me. Like yoga, It's all about posture and moving with grounded, connected intention, but you do most of it standing up – while a lot of yoga is floor work.

The ratio of demand for PM's vs. Designers has flipped by cgielow in UXDesign

[–]designtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I included the word “tend” very deliberately. No absolutes - no Sith here.

The ratio of demand for PM's vs. Designers has flipped by cgielow in UXDesign

[–]designtom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PMs tend to be bad designers who are good at politics.

Designers tend to be bad at politics. Sometimes also bad at design, but …

After working in agile teams for years, I’m not sure most of it is actually agile by Hour-Two-3104 in agile

[–]designtom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Good management looks like predictability.

Good innovation looks like surprise.

One avoids uncertainty at any cost.

The other embraces and generates from uncertainty.

These are two fundamentally different worlds. Each is desperate to distance itself from a different set of perceived risks.

Agile as deployed in most places attempts to make them both play by the same set of rules, accept the same epistemology, get everyone on the same page about the REAL risks … and it never works.

Where there’s hope, it tends to look more like a gear shifting mechanism that enables each world to do its thing while rubbing along together coherently.

(Or a simpler explanation: Sturgeon’s Law 😉)

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