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

Thu Apr 7 13:34:36 UTC 2016

Now with Joaquin...

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> +1 Stephen, and thanks Joaquin. I'm gonna cross-post with the team
> practices list. :)
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Niedzielski <
> sniedzielski at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> | Greg Grossmeier            GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
>>> | identi.ca: @greg                A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Engineering mailing list
>>> Engineering at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Engineering mailing list
>> Engineering at lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/attachments/20160407/5f0b30fb/attachment.html>