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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I have a friend who was a project manager. He took the time to learn every platform used by his team, but held no pretenses that he could actually develop anything without the team. His main goal was filter all the horseshit from the stakeholders and higher-ups so that they wouldn’t overwhelm the team with minutia. By learning the platforms and observing the team developing, he could make accurate predictions on timeliness based on whatever arbitrary feature was being requested and he’d always answer “let me ask my team” before discussing deliverables if he wasn’t sure.

    The number of times that he explained in meetings that’s the team’s timeline didn’t change, but that the stakeholders’ expectations did and that introduced a new additional timeline was incredible. It’s unsurprising that he only lasted a year or two before his bosses started pushing for a promotion. Seeing him work made mean bit jealous that I couldn’t be on his team, but we work at different companies and I don’t want to join the private sector if I can be of benefit to public education.










  • A lot of our pre-2015-ish rom-coms and dramas are highly problematic. There are some movies I used to love and quote which now make me cringe when I think back on it. I try not to think about how horrible I was back then and instead focus on being better.

    Lord knows I had my moments of thinking women owed me something for my mere interests and efforts. Those memories keep me up at night.


  • I’ve been curious how feelings about a movie like Mrs. Doubtfire would evolve over time. Do you mind elaborating on what you find sad and revolting?

    Also, have you always felt this way/this strongly about the movie or did your emotions change as there was more public awareness of how marginalized people are in society?

    These are sincere questions, I genuinely want to know your thoughts and feelings. Also, totally acceptable answer if you’ve just always hated the movie or even dislike Robin Williams; I realize my previous questioning has a lot of bias.