you can just do stuff - alice maz

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I love the image it conjures of this classroom, full of mildly confused kids, looking at each other, unsure, until someone decides that it's not some kind of joke and they actually can just do what they want. it also made me think of two other silly stories with similar themes of getting the mildest taste of empowerment without being trained or told to take it one of my first managers when I first got into tech told me a story about a service outage he was party to earlier in his career. the servers were down, nothing was available. no amount of troubleshooting had successfully resolved the issue, or even offered any leads. this was a company with service-level agreements, so real customers and real money were on the line. him and his partner in the server room had no idea what to do then, for some reason he couldn't explain, he realized it would be fixed with a hard reboot. but there was also the possibility that the services might not come back on at all in his telling, there was hes

a friend of mine posted a funny tweet: QC (7/10 Substack posts, 7/10 singing vids)@QiaochuYuan i taught a class like this once but it was called introduction to leadership. i wrote “introduction to leadership” on the board then sat down and didn’t say anything and waited Sym꩜ra ꙮ - DM me for contact info / other sites @GlitchesRoux seen via discord https://t.co/19e5RgdmOQ 10:22 PM · Mar 5, 2023 104 Reposts · 1.78K Likes I love the image it conjures of this classroom, full of mildly confused kids, looking at each other, unsure, until someone decides that it's not some kind of joke and…

you can just do stuff - alice maz

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