Kurt Schrader
@kurtschrader.bsky.social
CEO/Co-Founder of Shortcut, Project Management for Engineering Teams that Get Shit Done.
I like to build things.
I like to build things.
Good week of skiing when you have to dig out your rental car from this:
February 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Good week of skiing when you have to dig out your rental car from this:
Seemingly the current sales meta:
Too many AI generated pitches in your email inbox?
We have a solution, and that solution is even more AI pitches!
Too many AI generated pitches in your email inbox?
We have a solution, and that solution is even more AI pitches!
January 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Seemingly the current sales meta:
Too many AI generated pitches in your email inbox?
We have a solution, and that solution is even more AI pitches!
Too many AI generated pitches in your email inbox?
We have a solution, and that solution is even more AI pitches!
Reposted by Kurt Schrader
Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
January 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
Just targeted that goalpost.
January 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Just targeted that goalpost.
Home for the holidays and mom subtly drops the “you know, if you wanted to move back you could buy this Frank Lloyd Wright house across town for $1.3M…”
December 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Home for the holidays and mom subtly drops the “you know, if you wanted to move back you could buy this Frank Lloyd Wright house across town for $1.3M…”
Interesting to see how viral posts just keep rolling along on Bluesky. Everyday I get 3 or 4 likes on a post I made 11 days ago.
December 17, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Interesting to see how viral posts just keep rolling along on Bluesky. Everyday I get 3 or 4 likes on a post I made 11 days ago.
Cool story bro.
December 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Cool story bro.
Is anyone really surprised that my kid wrote this?
December 13, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Is anyone really surprised that my kid wrote this?
I think that Devin might be at that point we all get to where we just need to go take a nap for a bit and when we wake up we know how to fix the code.
December 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I think that Devin might be at that point we all get to where we just need to go take a nap for a bit and when we wake up we know how to fix the code.
The article from the deleted Skeet that I posted about. Just a rouges’ gallery of “the best people”: time.com/7200122/pers...
December 10, 2024 at 3:04 AM
The article from the deleted Skeet that I posted about. Just a rouges’ gallery of “the best people”: time.com/7200122/pers...
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen an article more obviously written to get everyone (and I do mean everyone) on social media to yell about it.
December 10, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen an article more obviously written to get everyone (and I do mean everyone) on social media to yell about it.
Amazing article about the fall of Intel and all of the mistakes they've made (and continue to make) along the way: semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/i...
Intel on the Brink of Death | Culture Rot, Product Focus Flawed, Foundry Must Survive
Intel’s board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death. The decision to fire Pat Gelsinger, put in charge a CFO + career sales and marketing lea…
semianalysis.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Amazing article about the fall of Intel and all of the mistakes they've made (and continue to make) along the way: semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/i...
Good to see that _somebody_ is thinking about our poor, poor sludge companies. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/c...
December 8, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Good to see that _somebody_ is thinking about our poor, poor sludge companies. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/c...
We must be getting close to the end of the year because desperate AEs from companies I'm not interested in are just putting meetings on my calendar again.
December 2, 2024 at 7:57 PM
We must be getting close to the end of the year because desperate AEs from companies I'm not interested in are just putting meetings on my calendar again.
Very happy to see all of football Twitter reforming here like Voltron coming together to save us.
December 1, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Very happy to see all of football Twitter reforming here like Voltron coming together to save us.
Go Blue!
December 1, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Go Blue!
If only there was a way to stop this other team from running out on our field and planting their flag. If only…
December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
If only there was a way to stop this other team from running out on our field and planting their flag. If only…
Reposted by Kurt Schrader
Now thinking about it that’s not my favorite Michigan win over Ohio State but it is absolutely the funniest
November 30, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Now thinking about it that’s not my favorite Michigan win over Ohio State but it is absolutely the funniest
Reposted by Kurt Schrader
The most I've ever identified with Tennessee fans was today when they all cheered after Ohio State lost, the spirit of Pure Hatin was with us all
November 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
The most I've ever identified with Tennessee fans was today when they all cheered after Ohio State lost, the spirit of Pure Hatin was with us all
After 20+ years and billions spent exploring alternatives, the software industry still always seems to gravitate back to Scrum (or 'Scrum by another name'). Makes you wonder why we keep circling back to the same patterns despite all of our efforts to innovate.
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
After 20+ years and billions spent exploring alternatives, the software industry still always seems to gravitate back to Scrum (or 'Scrum by another name'). Makes you wonder why we keep circling back to the same patterns despite all of our efforts to innovate.
One time, while we were switching a big chunk of a Fortune 500 company over to Shortcut, someone there said to me "You realize that there are like 8 people here who will lose their jobs if we fully switch off of Jira, right? They're going to fight this like hell."
I still think about that a lot.
I still think about that a lot.
November 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
One time, while we were switching a big chunk of a Fortune 500 company over to Shortcut, someone there said to me "You realize that there are like 8 people here who will lose their jobs if we fully switch off of Jira, right? They're going to fight this like hell."
I still think about that a lot.
I still think about that a lot.
Here's a new one (to me at least):
I ordered a PSVR2 from Amazon and the delivery person came to the door of my building (at 8:30pm) and took a picture of the pile of boxes that were delivered earlier in the day (through the window in the door) "for proof" and then didn't leave the package.
I ordered a PSVR2 from Amazon and the delivery person came to the door of my building (at 8:30pm) and took a picture of the pile of boxes that were delivered earlier in the day (through the window in the door) "for proof" and then didn't leave the package.
November 26, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Here's a new one (to me at least):
I ordered a PSVR2 from Amazon and the delivery person came to the door of my building (at 8:30pm) and took a picture of the pile of boxes that were delivered earlier in the day (through the window in the door) "for proof" and then didn't leave the package.
I ordered a PSVR2 from Amazon and the delivery person came to the door of my building (at 8:30pm) and took a picture of the pile of boxes that were delivered earlier in the day (through the window in the door) "for proof" and then didn't leave the package.
"You need to talk to an agent to solve your issue."
"We have no agents."
"We have no agents."
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
"You need to talk to an agent to solve your issue."
"We have no agents."
"We have no agents."
This is your annual reminder (during the season when everything is on sale) that one of the easiest upgrades to your daily happiness level is simply to buy really nice socks.
November 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
This is your annual reminder (during the season when everything is on sale) that one of the easiest upgrades to your daily happiness level is simply to buy really nice socks.