A cute squirrel that seems all innocent but actually is also a bottle opener

I haven’t read your blog post, but I agree with your comment.

Unfortunately, Scrum is often misused. Why? Often, I think people don’t understand the problems that Scrum is trying to solve. So people implement Scrum poorly. And, when evaluation time comes, they blame everything but their lack of knowledge and skill regarding Scrum.

But Scrum is actually a framework to help you solve very common problems.

If you understand that, then Scrum becomes useful.

There’s a set of problems that teams will always have to deal with: how to choose what to work on, how to coordinate, how to know when something is done, how to see if your work actually solves the problems you’re trying to solve, how to deal with task-switching costs, how to deal with cognitive load, how to deal with complexity…

And those problems can be solved with Scrum. Or Kanban. Or any other Agile way of working.

What’s important is that it works.

This totally happens in code where functions have plenty of side effects. And thats why functional programming can lead to fearless refactoring!

I’d love to edit my previous post but I don’t wanna spam you.

As to target audiences, I think it could be helpful to specify the personas that we’re building the sentences for. Does the persona know what the Fediverse is? Do they know what enshittification is? Do they know what open source is? Do they have strong opinions about surveillance capitalism (even if they don’t know the word for it)? Or are they clueless regarding all of these topics?

My suggestion assumes some knowledge of these topics. To be clear, if I’d single out a suggestion of mine, it’d be:

A discussion platform that can’t enshittify. You choose your feed. You choose where to host your account.

I tried the Kuru Toga Advance today. It’s amazing! Definitely getting a Kuru Toga instead of the other metal ones I had in mind.

The best sentence will depend on the target audience. Is there a way to know who would be that audience?

Also, responding more directly to your question, I’ve got a frame challenge: What about two or three short sentences, like what Mastodon does?

A platform that is truly democratic. You choose your feed. You choose where to host your account.

A platform where you’re truly free. You choose your feed. You choose where to host your account.

A platform that can’t enshittify. You choose your feed. You choose where to host your account.

That third one I like, because it’s a differentiator that Lemmy has in comparison with ButterflyX or whatever Jack the Twitter Guy is working on right now; Lemmy is not at risk of enshitifying, unlike ButterflyX.

Also, if it’s important to differentiate Lemmy from Mastodon or other Fediverse platforms, the sentences could start with “A discussion platform”.

Also, here’s a take where I tried to make no reference to electronics:

A bustling room filled with tables, each filled with people talking about what they find interesting, where the conversation topics are always chosen by the table and always changing, and where you’re free to set up your own tables with your own topics.

or, more succinctly,

A bustling room filled with tables, where each table is filled with people talking about what they find interesting, a room where you’re free to set up your own tables with your own topics.

Also, I just realized that every time that I edit this post you get notified becase I @ed you. Sorry!

And, finally, happy cake day, @nutomic@lemmy.ml!

Thanks so much for your thorough and thoughtful response.

give [the Lamy Safari Rollerball] a try on standard printer paper to see if there is a difference.

I did it and the ink didn’t flow inconsistently! Amazing. I don’t know how long this would’ve taken me to realize, if at all!

Uni Kuru Toga

This sounds great!

The one I tried was Rotring 600, and I liked its metal construction and that it apparently has a tried-and-tested design. However, when I look at the Uni Kuru Toga’s moving parts, I assume there’s more risk of parts failing. I looked it up quickly and for lots of people Kuru Togas could last years, while others had them stop working after a while.

Maybe choosing a mechanical pencil is not a matter of “which mechanical pencil lasts longer”, but “what experience would you like to pay for while the mechanical pencil works”. Or, maybe it’s more of a matter of “try and see”.

TWSBI GO [and] Kaweco Classic Sport

I love how both of these sound. Thanks for the information on the catridge leakage.

If this is true, holy shit.

If this isn’t true, I hope this doesn’t detract from the other shit we know is true.

Oh wow. You unlocked some of my memories. Turns out, when I was little, my dad used to have a stash of G2s. If I wanted to use them, I could do so in front of him, but I couldn’t take one. I remember that I liked how they felt but I couldn’t really write properly without accidentally bumping the pen on the page and ending up with random marks all over. To be fair, it could’ve been a skill issue! Now that I’ve got some years of handwriting under my belt, I’ll try them again.

The goal is to have a good working environment to live good lives and do good work.

The fact that your boss pulled in other coworkers could be interpreted as a red flag, as something fundamentally wrong with your boss. However, without more information, I think this situation could be workable. In other words, there are things you can do.

Again, the goal is to have a good working environment to live good lives and do good work.

I think a good working environment is one where errors can be talked about openly and without fear. I do not think the solution is “praise publicly criticize privately”. I think the solution is for your team (including your boss) to create psychologically safe environment. How? By emphasizing the goal, the purpose of your work. By admitting to mistakes or lack of knowledge to accept fallibility. This is especially helpful if your boss does it. By appreciating when someone openly shares concerns or mistakes. By creating rituals or habits of inclusion, such as well run meetings or effective information-gathering methods.

Do all of those recommendations sound hard to implement and naive? I think for many teams they are. But the reality is that psychologically safe teams exist, and they perform better than teams that don’t have it.

If it’s hard to implement it, why am I bringing it up? Because I think it’s important know exactly what went wrong with your meeting with your boss. It’s better to have an accurate map that shows a steep canyon than a fake map that shows a nonexistent bridge.

So what do you do?

Here are a couple of suggestions:

• learn about psychological safety. Amy Edmonson is the authority on the subject.
• learn to have Crucial Conversations. It’ll help you now and it’ll help you forever.

If you vibe with what I’m saying, let me know and I can give you more suggestions. At the same time, it’s totally understandable if you don’t think my path is viable.

This sounds amazing. It seems to me as the most environmentally friendly way of writing. It also probably can be quite cheap, if the cost of the pen is amortized over a long-enough period and the ink isn’t crazy expensive.

I’d be scared of taking it with me when traveling in the city or on a plane. In the city, I’d slosh it violently. In the plane, the air pressure would suddenly change. I don’t know how likely these worst-case scenarios are, but for now I’m okay with using fountain pens at home! In fact, I like the idea of getting this pen. Thanks for the recommendation!

They’re solid. They last a long time and they’re super cheap.

They’re so good I actually have a bag of them. I use them in reading groups or meetings where people don’t have something to write with.

The thing is, I tried other pens, and I liked those others more!

I’ve used fineliners in the past, when I briefly tried DrawABox. I like them for the purposes of drawing, but I didn’t particularly like them for writing. It felt too delicate. It also felt awkward to push the tip instead of pull it. Do you write with it?

Love my G-Tec-C4 0.4. My local store doesn’t sell the Hi-Tech-C, so my 0.4 is as thin as it gets for me. Of course, I could order some but I had a bad experience with that so not doing it again soon.

Do you write on lined paper? If so, do you use lines with less space between them?

I’m sorry to hear you’re seeing so much happening all at once, things that mean so much to you.

I hope you can find meaning in each step you take, even if it’s hard.

If you want resources or help with that, feel free to ask.

This also happened to me. I had an interview on the phone in which I got amazing feedback. I then had my second interview online and had trouble with my audio. After that, they ghosted me.

I understand that, in many ways, ghosting is normal. Still, that first call’s feedback made me think they wanted to hire me.

That’s alright. I understand that explaining takes time and energy. That time and energy is something I often choose to spend, but I also sometimes choose not to. I would ask you why you want to stop explaining things, but that would, ironically, require you to explain things. I’m not saying this ironically or sarcastically: I hope you can be understood easily!

To understand what you mean, could you rephrase or explain your ideas? I read your post and couldn’t understand what you meant.

There is a group that does studies on different apps. They look at how much time people spend using a language-learning app and how much each minute of studying adds to a standardized language test. Turns out, Rosetta Stone and LingQ are the most efficient per minute spent in those apps. If I remember correctly, both are privately held companies, which I see as a better sign than Duolingo’s public listing. I don’t know about their privacy policies, though.

I’m posting this for anyone who could benefit from it.

I now manage my Someday/Maybe list by coalescing similar items. That way, the list is more manageable, but I am not getting rid of stuff.

I got that idea from Jeff Payton’s User Story Maps. He has this idea that stories are like moving asteroids from the game Asteroids. Specifically, big asteroids are easy to keep track of and easy to manage. However, if you destroy an asteroid into smaller pieces, they are more numerous and harder to manage.

So what does that mean for GTD? If you have many small items in your Someday/Maybe list, see if you can combine them into a larger, more manageable item. On the other hand, if you want to take action on a large item, you’ve got to break it down into smaller pieces.