@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

Bots and trolls are two of the worst things to happen to the internet. Complete waste of time.

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I'm not rooting for a nation state. I'm rooting for open source.

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No matter what DeepSeek cost, the important part is, they could afford to give it away.

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I love customer feedback.

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Over the last two years I've moved to a direct booking process for all my speaking engagements. I'm saving my clients about 20% to 30% in agency fees as a resul...

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Now that DeepSeek is having an impact on the US stock market, I expect a huge negative press cycle designed to discredit their advancement is on the way.

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As an employee, I was a fan of accountability. I didn't always welcome critiques about my performance, but I believed in exceeding honest expectations, so I lea...

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Most of my promotions were based on my ability to attach my work to the metrics below. Working at a major cloud provider made this a lot easier because we track...

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A great résumé highlights your impact, not activities.

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1. Impact. How much revenue does my work protect or generate?

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I've got only one resolution. Stay focused.

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Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

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It's tomorrow, and this live stream starts in one hour, 10:00 AM PST.

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Tomorrow I'll be joining the @massdriver.cloud team to discuss the limitations of GitOps, infrastructure as code, and why writing a bunch of Terraform isn't eno...

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Seems I'm learning more when I'm offline.

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What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

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They want to keep the prisoners locked in until it's time to put the fires out.

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Trolls,

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When people call me in their time of need, the first thing I do is listen, then thank them for trusting me. It takes a lot to ask for help. I spend an hour on a...

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I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come...

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