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"In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."

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Wowzers. Notion just rolled out sub-tasks, and it looks awesome. I was just considering another task management solution because I wanted this. The timing! notion.so/help/guides/tasks-manageable-steps-sub-tasks-dependencies

Break tasks into manageable steps with sub-tasks and dependencies
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Break tasks into manageable steps with sub-tasks and dependencies

Sub-tasks and dependencies show how all the pieces of your tasks and projects connect. You can scope out tasks, assign individual steps to your team members, and identify anything blocking your progress.

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This post by @lethain is possibly the most important writing on engineering leadership ever. I've read it so many times over the years lethain.com/doing-it-harder-and-hero-programming/

Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder
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Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder

One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else.

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"Modern knowledge work, if anything, is a shallow distraction generation machine. A professional schedule riven with email, Slack, and calendar invites is one that cannot also support whatever form of inspired thought moves the needle in your particular field." calnewport.com/blog/2022/12/05/ann-patchett-on-scheduling-creativity/

Ann Patchett on Scheduling Creativity - Cal Newport
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Ann Patchett on Scheduling Creativity - Cal Newport

In a recent interview for the BBC podcast Spark & Fire, the novelist Ann Patchett discusses some of the difficulties that come along with finding ... Read more

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"Well, it took most of the day, but I installed MT on my machine and it works. I hope. I had installed PERL on my machine a long time ago, when I first meant to go through this exercise, but I still had to install MySQL, which took an hour to download off the Web last night." daniel.industries/2003/06/17/my-first-post-via-MT/

My First Post Via MT
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My First Post Via MT

Well, it took most of the day, but I installed MT on my machine and it works. I hope. I had installed PERL on my machine a long time ago, when I first meant to go through this exercise, but I still had to install MySQL, which took an hour to download off the web last night.