reid @reid9.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Can we move past looking at the mythicized origins of tech companies for management book fodder? Not yet? Okay. 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 18/04/2026sometimes community care is getting between 2 people on some strong uppers getting into a fist fight on the red line platform, then breaking up ANOTHER fight that one of them started on a train car, and the person you saved from the second fight saying "he's probably a f*g" 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I feel like 2026 is not the year to pretend like management and tech can be this morally pure ethical fantasyland if you just ignore the layers of exploitation making it happen 120
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 25/12/2025if we have to keep the term "cost center" around maybe we can at least apply it to all functional teams rather than just any team whose work we want to devalue. actually, maybe i agree with drucker - all teams are cost centers, and the only profit center is a check that doesn't bounce 110
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 19/12/2025who wants to watch this for 8 hours with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCs-...youtube.comyou have found the mythical seal caveYouTube video by AZALI 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 07/12/2025@lizthegrey.com phrase from today that will stick with me: "paws on keyboard" 🐾🐾 181
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025desperately not wanting to be part of the system (that feeling is part of the system) 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 01/12/2025one sentence horror: "And when I explained this to Alice, my ChatGPT therapist, she understood." 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025realizing that my long-held avoidance of posting anything vaguely meaningful has been because of a conviction that what is happening in this country would happen; as well as drive to keep the feed clean in case the horrible companies that often gatekeep jobs check my social media 130
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 20/03/2025@chicago.devopsdays.org slides up: speakerdeck.com/reidsavage/a... might turn the speaker notes into a post as well at a l8r d8 #DevOpsDaysspeakerdeck.comAnti-DevOps: SRE at HoneycombSiloes and boundaries are natural and useful; they constrain the problem space, make it possible to reason in the face of overwhelming complexity, and g… 030
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 13/02/2025goal: be gayer (like in the site reliability engineering sense) 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 25/10/2024omg who wants an invite to my I Saw The TV Glow themed birthday in the Birthday Room at Regal Cinemas in Chicago, Illinois 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 23/10/2024"you can smile if you want". what about a surprise DL photo when i haven't showered or shaved makes you think i want to smile (i desperately do but physically cannot) 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 10/09/2024writing an article i would have liked to have read when i started managing (what is management actually?) and the answer i'm coming to is it's the crappy corp stuff nobody else can do - perf management and firing people - but also everything else, pro re nata. 100
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 10/09/2024combination truck stop arby's Fallen Soldier Table in Du Bois, PA 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 07/09/2024today i learned the only reason you can visit fallingwater is because the owner's son was gay and had no kids and donated it 074
