After my 80-year-old dad went from hitting 230-yard drives to the ICU for ten days, something shook me and stirred me to the core. Always had the glib to paper over curveballs life threw at me. Imagine a fan of Jane Austen searching for words to explain away the realities of life.
X can be toxic or therapeutic. As long as you can laugh away the toxicity of the immoral bottom feeders of humanity and just let out some of your thoughts, it is, for sure, therapeutic. Who cares about the number of followers? Just be yourself.
Been reading a lot of 10Ks and was planning to do an article on Lululemon. There are so many childish errors in the 10K. I didn’t know what to make of it. Fraud? Or, they had a bloody intern write it? In any event, this kind of sloppiness doesn’t deserve my attention. However, one of my interns (BTW, I pay them) said:
Saar, if there are so many errors then it is not AI-generated for sure, Saar.
The inspiration for this rant came from something I wrote on X.
You want to be a good engineering manager? How do you solve this?
f(x) = y
My mates would say, “There he goes trolling again.” True. However, there is a deeper meaning to it, not just for engineering managers, but for managers in any field and humanity as a whole.
Look at the function again. There is an undefined variable and a result. As engineers or managers, we strive to manage the balls in the air, i.e. variables, to achieve the end result, i.e. y.
But how does one do it? Is there a mathematical way to define the process in a simplistic way? There is. Break the problem into smaller pieces. Consider the following equation.
Seriously, you haughty mathematicians, where did the “y” go? What kind of discombobulated shenanigans is this?
That in essence is life, in a philosophical way. You can manage the variables life throws at you, but the end result might not be what you desire.
f(x) ≠ y
Parting Note
Counterfactual is a thing that can be used to mess with your mind. And:
Since the beginning of online messaging and chatting, grammar, and typo police have been the most reviled people. If you are so inclined, go become a teacher.