[Engineering] [Talk] How To Stop Sucking And Be Awesome Instead

Wed Apr 6 19:49:14 UTC 2016

This was great! From my own perspective, I found the following reframing
useful:

1 Delivery is more important than my idea of perfection.
2 Publish code and products as often as practical.
3 Always be building what's most important to users.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> <quote name="Joaquin Oltra Hernandez" date="2016-04-06" time="11:56:43
> +0200">
> > I really enjoyed this talk from Jeff Atwood, it contains a lot of wisdom
> > and I thought I'd share it around here
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EGIt3-WUQ
>
> Summary: https://youtu.be/L7EGIt3-WUQ?t=1449
>
> Which is (over simplified, I was also multitasking while listening):
> 1. Embrace the suck (aka: be OK with failing)
> 2. Do it in Public (obvious, or I hope, for us ;) )
> 3. Pick stuff that matters (yup)
>
>
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