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

Max Binder mbinder at wikimedia.org
Thu Apr 7 13:33:48 UTC 2016


+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)
>>
>>
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