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Trying out showing timezone offsets for transit departures/arrivals (and should eventually also be done for journey plans/itineraries), as times are displayed in local time at the place shown (which I think makes sense, as that's what would be used in timetables).
Turns out this week was extra intreresting for that as North America is still in DST, while the EU is in non-DST.
#gnomemaps #publictransit #timezones #dst #daylightsavingstime #mapstodon #transitous
Hindsight bias makes retrospectives lie to us. Once something has happened we reconstruct the past so the outcome looks inevitable, and the story we tell gets so good that we stop seeing the other options that were live at the time.
I started photographing the earrings. This is going to be a slog. These are some of the earrings I've got organized in my "bar dangle" inventory box. Multiple variations of the same basic theme and I need photographs of each style.
One box down, five more to go. 🙄
Today's #jewelry photo shoot is under way.
I've got 6 rings in inventory and just photographed them from two angles. Here are 4 of them. 3 Hubei Turquoise and 1 fire agate. All of the metal is solid sterling silver.
I just realized that my order from #Chewy did not include the automatic water dish I ordered. I use an automatic waterer in my garage for my cat and the one I've got now is leaking. I called Chewy, my phone was answered by a human, and that same human took care of the problem by refunding me for the missing item and re-ordering the item at a discount. It'll arrive in 3 to 5 days. And now I have a small credit on my Chewy account for future use. THAT is good #CustomerService.
Out my window right now.
🧾 The organizations we work for often pay a heavy but invisible tax: the complexity tax. It shows up in slow decision-making, unnecessary overhead, and warring metrics.
We've all seen the symptoms: approval by committee, constant need for permission, information silos. Complexity didn't arrive overnight. Instead, it came one tiny decision at a time. Most of these decisions weren't harmful. It's the collective result that hurts. We have a cognitive bias when solving a problem, in that we tend to look for things to add rather than subtract.
In the early 2000s, as Nokia did very well with mobile phones, it hired more people to help coordinate the work. On the surface, this helped. Then, as Ran Nyman and Ari Tikka document, the coordination chaos that resulted was a significant factor in the demise of Nokia mobile.
Adding additional managers and departments isn't always bad, because the problem isn't the person or even the role. Instead, the problem is when the decision is made to add a new manager (an increase in complexity) without seeking simplicity first. Once the manager or department is added, people will be invested in this complexity forever.
A quick test: you have a complexity problem if you need a flow chart to map out your organization's decision-making process.
After 25 years of Agile, I still see organizations strangling their decision-making process with so much overhead that the teams do low value work, waiting for all of the decisions.
When doing work, always ask the question, how could we simplify this system? What could we eliminate? Every time we make a decision to simplify, we make it easier for the person who follows.
I went out for another look and I brought the spotlight with me. Another bunch came into my yard from the hillside between my property and my neighbors. One of them was a bull elk. I'm not sure if he was the one doing the bugling. The females are making a little tiny noise as they move around. It's fascinating. I just hope there aren't any hunters up here this morning.
I wish I'd gotten a picture of that bull! He had a pretty good rack.
There's a male elk bugling much closer than usual this morning. I don't know much about elk; is the bugling a mating call? If so, there's a definite possibility of me being able to witness elk sex in my side yard this morning. 😳 oh man
The sound is incredible and I wish I could capture it and share it here. Sadly, I don't think my instance allows video uploads; I've never been able to do so.
They are out there again! I think there's probably about 20 of them. Female #elk. It's a lot darker out than this photo suggests. (I gotta love the camera on my iPhone.)
Some food for thought on creativity and having many — too many? — interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69z-xnx-M6k&feature=youtu.be #art #creativity #CreativeMinds
Dan Rogers, CEO, Asana: "The pace of AI change has effectively broken traditional planning cycles. We've moved from a 12-month annual business review rhythm to quarterly checkpoints and continuous reprioritization, because you simply can't wait a year to course-correct in a domain evolving month to month."
Annual planning cycles never made sense. As uncertainty increases, they make even less sense. Let's replace annual planning with clear options (or bets, if you prefer). Every quarter, evaluate the options:
- What have we learned in the last quarter?
- Are there any options that no longer make sense?
- Which of these options should we pursue next?
What this means to me is that $85 will be in limbo for up to 90 days when the person who ordered my jewelry will get it tomorrow.
I'm starting to wonder if this is a credit card theft issue. If that's the case, the credit card company should be held liable.
I use pre-made niobium ear wires for the copper earrings I make. I used to be able to buy them from my regular #jewelry supplier, Rio Grande, but they stopped selling them. So now I buy from an AZ company called Reactive Metals, which sells metals like niobium and titanium.
https://www.reactivemetals.com/findings
The problem: they have regular business hours (M-F, 8:15-4) and do not have online ordering. I FINALLY remembered to call and place an order today.
Got my first credit card chargeback for the online order I processed on Saturday. And I rushed the order and shipped with Priority Mail at my expense! I've got plenty of evidence to prove the charge is legit. I hope the bank and Square don’t screw this up. It’s $85.
🏭 Weak (or absent) Product Owners lead to team members working in a Feature Factory. John Cutler coined this term in 2016 to describe a software developer who complained that they spent their day in a cubicle, just shipping features.
I see this happening for many reasons:
- Rigid roadmaps, often published with dates more than a year in advance
- Team members who don't understand the vision or the strategy
- Organizations that obsess over velocity
- Focus on output (number of widgets) instead of outcome (solving the customer problem)
GenAI is making the Feature Factory worse by accelerating output without improving outcome.
Which of these do you recognise?
On tap for today: everything I was supposed to do yesterday. I just couldn't get it together yesterday afternoon.
So I'm going to photograph my earrings, bracelets, and rings; update my online shop; put my truck away; and organize my studio. I'd really like to get back to making stuff. In the meantime, my new trim saw should arrive today, although I don't think I'll set it up until tomorrow. I might work on a rolling tabletop for it, utilizing a camp table with a sink built-in.
The elk were out in my side yard again this morning. This time, I had the foresight to look for them with my spotlight before I let the dogs out. I counted about a dozen females. The light got them moving, so by the time I came down with the dogs, they were pretty much gone. It's hunting season here and I'm wondering if they know that it's safer to stay up in the hills than to go down into the wildlife corridor that abuts my property. Could they be that smart?
I don't know what's with me today but I am ready for a nap at 12:10 PM. I slept nearly 8 hours last night. None of this makes sense. I'm going to try to get one hour of sleep and maybe get productive this afternoon.
#Wordle 1,954 4/6*
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talked myself out of the answer for my 3rd guess then went with it for my 4th
Bot had this to say about my starting word: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity. Less than 0.1% of players today opened with XXXXX"
On tap for today: photographing all of the styles of earrings, bracelets, and rings I have available for sale. And then updating my online shop to include them all, with accurate inventory numbers. This is incredibly tedious work, but I'm pretty sure I can finish it all today. That'll leave me open for more interesting work for the rest of the week. (1/2)
