The good news: hope has been found. The bad news: it won't come back without a fight.
— Nein. (@NeinQuarterly) February 18, 2017
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Journalism Class
New York Times: Russell Baker, Pulitzer-Winning Times Columnist and Humorist, Dies at 93
And he was as devilish in person as in print. A fellow Times columnist, Tom Wicker, recalled that Mr. Baker, talking once to college students, was asked, “What courses should a journalism school teach?”
He replied: “The ideal journalism school needs only one course. Students should be required to stand outside a closed door for six hours. Then the door would open, someone would put his head around the jamb and say, ‘No comment.’ The door would close again, and the students would be required to write 800 words against a deadline.”
Hat tip: MG Siegler
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Email Debt
Journalist Kate Aronoff:
Yup.
Developer Marco Arment:
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1089552170935029760
Also yup.
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Mediocrity
Overheard in the office today:
What’s so hard to understand about having bullets put into your chest?
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Making Trade-Offs at Scale
What is lost in all of this recent discussion is the nuance between features, schedule, and quality. It is like having a discussion with a financial advisor over income, risk, and growth. You don’t just show up and say you want all three and get a “sure”. …
In practice when building Office (and later Windows) whenever someone on the team would panic and ask “are we date driven, feature driven, or quality driven” we would just roll our eyes and pull up a chair…This was so common we just called it conversation #37 and move on.
—Steven Sinofsky, on building products at Microsoft (via Daring Fireball)
Well Within Limits 