Mitchell Shanklin

Per some discussions online...if you conjure up an author by tagging them in a review or review link...you have summoned a demon. All separation between demon and summoner has been lost. If the demon speaks, it is because the demon was summoned. Maybe offer the demon cookies.

WRITER FEEDBACK: This line here seems hard to believe ME, WRITER: Adds “It’s hard to believe, but...” to the beginning of the line

Just a non-spoiler note about The Good Place: Schur has explained that he basically got told after Parks & Rec that NBC would do whatever he wanted, and he used it to make a weird, nutty show about moral philosophy. If you ever get a free fat pitch over the plate, swing hard.

Most technologists who build websites for local businesses should stop doing so. They in the main cannot afford professional labor, and should move to platforms like Shopify, site builders, etc which can amortize engineering costs over 100,000 similarly situated accounts.

the failure condition of a software feature should not be the same as its stated purpose. this is the hill I will die on

exec: i have a new band that’s going to tear up the charts ceo: what’s the name exec: duran duran duran ceo: that’s way too many durans exec: we can cut it down to just duran, sir ceo: hmm now i’m worried that’s not enough durans exec: i have an excellent idea then, sir

No book can survive a hostile reading.https://twitter.com/ArtofNickRobles/status/1220616531895341057 …

I'm now at the point in life where I've seen enough proprietary software shut down that it's one of the biggest reasons I prefer open source In other words, I've become a digital prepper

I don't always agree with Yang's diagnosis of our problems, or his policy prescriptions. But I desperately want the *attitude and feel* of Yang's campaign to be the future of politics and social relations in this country. It's wholesome when almost everything else is broken.

This is extremely true of companies and teams, and an underappreciated area of endeavor is setting the ambient resting state level of productivity high. Most organizations do not, for a host of reasons.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1221664812322570240 …

Yang's campaign is probably the most purely, truly populist campaign. It's a completely grassroots explosion of disaffection with the posturing, negativity, and zero-sum thinking of modern American politics, combined with totally honest anxiety about the future of the economy.https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1221695536723582976 …

(Suffice it to say that I am astronomical units away from believing the tech industry has a rationally constructed process for attracting, evaluating, and closing candidates, but given that the equilibrium is where it is, this is—descriptively—how to play game well.)

"men are from mars, women are from venus" implies the existence of at least 6 other local genders of extreme variability, hundreds of thousands of other celestial genders, and possibly infinite extrasolar genders, many beyond what science has currently charted