adrienne

You can widen the aperture of your heart but it means more opportunities to have your heart broken. Having suffered many heartaches in my life, I can understand why people choose to keep it more narrow and not let the light in, but I don’t want that for me.

When I started building websites in 2000 cybersecurity meant firewalls and https When I started building enterprise software in 2002, cybersecurity meant having a dedicated security team who would handle all our cybersecurity related needs Later in the mid to late 2010s, DevSecOps entered the scene, where the teams I was managing stopped handing off security to a different team and started to integrate cybersecurity into code. Cybersecurity in the AI age is an entirely different beast. You have to be constantly patching and constantly focusing on cyber, not to get ahead but just to stay in place (aka Red Queen effect)

In honor of today's /word-a-day which is conformity, I'm resharing a leadership model I wrote about a few years ago An environment with too much conformity feels stifling, employees are doing work that they have to do, while not seeing any real value in it - things like status reports, time tracking, (I'm sure you can find an example in your workplace - it exists everywhere). Leaders of high performing teams reduce conformity as much as possible. The two easiest levers to pull are either: -- increase responsibility; give the employee ownership of a goal (an outcome), and give them the freedom to achieve it without telling them how (conformity) -- increase clarity; some tasks that feel like conformity is only because the employee perceives their work has little value, if you can explain how their work is important and how it fits into the greater efforts of the organization, it makes the work more palatable

When I heard about the railway incident today and that my api keys and secrets were likely exposed I acted with haste to rotate api keys And I’m thanking my past self for taking actions that make this process easier and less impactful

🙌 Here’s how it works: 1. Sign up at https://t.co/UcOOBctUZn and connect your X account 2. Use the word of the day in a post on X (to prove you actually learned it). Top level post or replies work. 3. Get feedback on your usage, and check out the leaderboard to see how your friends did. It’s a simple, free vocabulary builder thats playful and social. I built it earlier this year. Happy to answer any questions For example, today’s word is lucrative… so in my reply to you, I might also add that the game has not been lucrative financially but as a passion project it’s been very rewarding to build and see people like @Specktacularly tell me it’s helped build their English vocabulary ❤️

You could say with this change I've removed the ornate and superfluous rules that prevented people from playing the daily vocab game

sitting in a quiet house as I drink my morning coffee and caffeinate myself to jump start the day I am going to my high school reunion tonight. 30 years. Graduated with about 275 kids and we expect over 80 to show up. Not bad. 6 classmates have passed away since we graduated and we are setting up a small memorial table for them. All 6 were men and it makes me sad to think about it. I saw the rsvps as they were coming in because I’m helping organize the event and it’s crazy how many names I just don’t recognize at all. I can somehow simultaneously close my eyes and feel like I’m 16 and in high school again and I can picture faces and smells and textures of the walls and lockers but don’t remember names.

I also find it peculiar when people talk about how farcaster is dead… while they are using farcaster

I don’t know, that’s why I didn’t play today But here’s my attempt The way the chatters in the gmfarcaster livestream make fun of my face and try to make me laugh when I’m trying to do serious news is anything but reverent, thank you very much @links @dawufi and @yes2crypto.eth * last one doesn’t make fun of my face but he does make me laugh often

Yak shaving is an activity that feels vexing while you are in the midst of it, but when you are finished and look back at the work, you realize that the annoyance, frustration, and worry you felt were only transient. I say to myself as I finish day 3 of a refactoring activity that I thought would take half a day...And entirely unrelated, if anyone notices any issues with @word-a-day (on the miniapp, the site, the social accounts, notifications, scoring, etc.) let me know.