Aaron Parecki

San Francisco is going for it tonight

Product managers helping their engineering team deliver features https://t.co/uTbY2Sq7La

My 2 cents: do things because you like the grind, not because of the destination. Having goals is great, but look at the journey overall. Very few things in life are fulfilling/worth it if you don't like the journey to get there.

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion. A thread 1/9 #COVID19 #ThursdayThoughts

Hey, so, I got #Covid19 in March. I’ve been sick for over 3 months w/ severe respiratory, cardiovascular & neurological symptoms. I still have a fever. I’ve been incapacitated for nearly a season of my life. It's not enough to not die. You don’t want to live thru this, either. 1/

Another #AnimalCrossing #Avatar 😄 This time it’s my coworker @aaronpk! These are fun!

For anyone who feels like they “wasted” quarantine because they didn’t write a novel or learn a new language or get shredded, I have good news: Quarantine ain’t over get back inside.

This is one reason why good cops dont exist; because they’re not allowed to exist.

Ok Ok. I ACCEPT ALL COOKIES FOREVER. STOP ASKING. I ACCEPT, Click

And all joking aside, how do you take a bunch of open source products and suddenly make them closed source, extend the open source with a bit of your own tech and charge for the whole thing? Is that legal?

Brad. Are you trying to reverse-engineer a newspaper.

Hold the phone! My favorite writing app (@iawriter) just added #indieweb micropub support, which means I can post from it directly to my @withknown site. That’s super-cool.

If your service isn’t reliable, nothing else matters. We’re offering 99.99% uptime so you can focus on what matters. Proud of the @okta team for building unprecedented global reliability for our customers. https://bit.ly/2Zv5LKO

You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask

Them: OMG Look at this huge number!!11
Me: Wow. That's impressive. It also excludes A and B

Them: SOOOOO!?
Me: That means that's the minimum. The actual number is bigger and can't easily reasonably be estimated.

Them: NOOOOOOOO

Every problem Facebook and Twitter have is because of choices they made. Shit they layered on top. Ads. AI. Algorithms. None of it was needed.

fun reminder that beloved tech co. @cloudflare not only serves this website, but wrote a ~literal case study~ about it... https://twitter.com/mirandayaver/status/1278430829568561159

It’s so strange. I find it extra baffling from tiny startups. There’s a reasonable chance the pandemic will outlive their company.

Properly done, design helps people

Twitter announced support for a 9/80 schedule (1 day off every other week) but none of my reports were comfortable taking it until we announced that myself & team leads would be taking it. If you're a ppl manager, you have a responsibility to normalize actually using the perks.