Conway's Law and Interfaces
Conway's Law states that organizations will design systems that mirror their organizational as structure.
If you have one GUI team and one backend team, your code will end up split along those lines, possibly with some surprising duplication or inelegant data manipulation on either end.
One idea to improve the relationships between teams and achieve a more robust design, is to agree on interfaces. These can enforce a better working relationship, and be a natural communication point for the teams, while allowing autonomy within their domains.
I suggest that you take two opportunities to document these interfaces: once at the beginning and once at the end of a feature. That way, discoveries made along the way are captured, and future changes have the full context of the original communication design.
States vs Events
I often see coders confuse these two. It may happen when they want to trigger an external event on a state change, or another module needs to know something happened.
The difference is that events are transitory (ideally instant), and that states are not. States can be temporary
For example:
I [started] a new twitter account (event).
I am now growing the account, I am in [growth] mode (state).
A lot of people have been disappointed this cycle, as they've not seen returns in 'altcons' or even in bitcoin, that they'd expected. But if you look at the charts, we have been roughly following past cycles, even though the market cap is several times larger. Next six months will determine if that continues playing out.
If it doesn't, consider this theory:
- As more people become long term holders, and the issuance decreases, the marginal demand transitions from emotional speculators to passive flows. This, plus the law of large numbers, could have a dampening effect on volatility moving forward.
It might be less 'exciting', but it's still the fastest horse. Not to mention the other properties of bitcoin wrt storage, optionality, cryptographic guarantees.
Be patient!
Some thoughts on SAFe:
Remember the original Agile Manifesto? It was written by engineers who wanted to get things done.
Agile (TM) today is a cottage industry of consultants, certifications, and 'thought leaders'. I'd even assert that the commonly-associated practices run counter to the original intent. It is possible to fall into an anti-pattern of taking this too seriously! A corollary of Goodhart's law
You can do it
Legend says,
There is a religion somewhere
Where the sacred object
Is a chart
That goes
Up and to the right.
Observers of this religion
May deny their eyes
Stamp their feet
And cover their ears
To continue this trend.
The line is a lie.
You're cozy in bed.
It's a Sunday.
Gently snowing outside.
Nothing to do today but spend time with the fam.
Make some food, read a little, go for a walk.
You've made it.
Idea for a photo service that locks your pictures and videos away for a long time, so you can only view them in the distant future.
Like stumbling upon a box of old photos.
Quantum Physics teaches us that if you tip an artist, your sandwich will contain more meat.
I am just dumb enough to do it!
Email signatures are getting out of hand
My data was leaked in the 23andMe hack, now everyone will know that I am 47% Chihuahua
Talked with someone from El Salvador today, they said that while the tourist situation is improved, it's still life as usual for many in the country. Not much change with the new politicians. Interesting perspective.
Good night everyone, sleep tight 😘
Is it possible to form a dependence on Cozy Chamomile tea?
What is the maximum amount of Cozy I can achieve without danger of overdose?
I want more dog pics, I can never have enough #dogstr
I would prefer to pay a few cents to read a recipe or article, rather than pay with my time and attention sorting through all the ads and fluff.
