Jon DeVaan
@jondevaan.bsky.social
Former Microsoft executive, Excel, Office, Windows.
Now working to fix our broken political system.
https://represent.us
Now working to fix our broken political system.
https://represent.us
I am still flying high from the wonderful Seattle show. Thank you!
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I am still flying high from the wonderful Seattle show. Thank you!
Why not? Cost? That’s a business decision and making it on the side of random outages is IT and business malpractice.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Why not? Cost? That’s a business decision and making it on the side of random outages is IT and business malpractice.
And that is IT malpractice.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And that is IT malpractice.
It is IT malpractice to not have instant fail-over to a geographically separated redundant facility. This kind of outage should never happen.
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It is IT malpractice to not have instant fail-over to a geographically separated redundant facility. This kind of outage should never happen.
It is all three things at once:
qz.com/work/1225213...
qz.com/work/1225213...
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck
Let’s say the situation at work is not good. The project (or product, or re-org, or whatever) has launched, and the best you can say is that things aren’t going as planned. At all. It’s a disaster, th...
qz.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It is all three things at once:
qz.com/work/1225213...
qz.com/work/1225213...
A quick read of the PDF shows three things:
1. Joe Biden reduced the rate of inflation substantially
2. The reduction stopped soon after Trump became president.
3. Inflation is still 3.8%
A non-hype reader would see these as the main takeaways.
Doordash wants to hype because they want more workers.
1. Joe Biden reduced the rate of inflation substantially
2. The reduction stopped soon after Trump became president.
3. Inflation is still 3.8%
A non-hype reader would see these as the main takeaways.
Doordash wants to hype because they want more workers.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A quick read of the PDF shows three things:
1. Joe Biden reduced the rate of inflation substantially
2. The reduction stopped soon after Trump became president.
3. Inflation is still 3.8%
A non-hype reader would see these as the main takeaways.
Doordash wants to hype because they want more workers.
1. Joe Biden reduced the rate of inflation substantially
2. The reduction stopped soon after Trump became president.
3. Inflation is still 3.8%
A non-hype reader would see these as the main takeaways.
Doordash wants to hype because they want more workers.
