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Software Leadership Coach | 30 Years in the Trenches | Hundreds of CTOs & VPs Coached | Brutal Honesty. Zero Shame. Real Results. Let’s untangle the chaos together. Waiting til it gets worse to do something about it? How's that working so far? DM me.

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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 28/09/2026
The Weeping Angels are, by far, the scariest Doctor Who "villain." Discuss.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 31/08/2026
Had a close call visiting a local establishment's website yesterday. A CloudFlare dialogue came up, and after clicking to confirm that 'I was not a robot', it prompted me to: * Press Windows+R (opening a run command window * Paste something from my keyboard and press enter Don't ever do this.
A scam CloudFlare box stating "Additional Verification Required", and then providing instructions that install malware on your computer.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 14/08/2026
Amazing books I read this month 🧵
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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'll add to this to check directly with your state as well; vote.org wasn't able to confirm my registration just now but my state shows it correctly. So don't panic if the first site can't find you.
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2026
For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 01/07/2026
All this "maxxing" nonsense is just a ploy by big-Scrabble to sell more x's
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 29/06/2026
Have you walked a mall lately? I can't believe that Lids, a store dedicated to hats, would outlive KB Toys, Borders Books, and Circuit City. At least we still have Hot Topic.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 27/06/2026
Jimminy Cricket, this is a badass tech demo. jeantimex.github.io/threejs-water/
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ThreeJS Water
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sam @samthielman.com · 17/06/2026
Today's @lyz.bsky.social post about trying to buy a car from the patriarchy is really good:
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Get meaner, sooner | Men Yell at Me
In 2021, after scraping the driver’s door of my Mazda 5 on the wall of my garage in a truly boneheaded move. I decided it was time to buy a
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 12/06/2026
Many are bad at numbers. They see a 1k, and that feels like a lot. A 1M feels like more, but close. A 1B is pretty close to a million, and a 1T is pretty close to a billion. We have to start writing them all out.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 12/06/2026
Listen up. Nicole's full thread here is very important and 100% aligned with what an experienced coach (hi 👋) would tell you, too.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 11/06/2026
Entrepreneurs, good news! You don't need to waste time telling us your app is 100% AI coded. We'll know.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 11/06/2026
How much do I need to drink and of what spirit in order to forget the lyrics to Iesha by Another Bad Creation and other select songs of that era?
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 05/06/2026
This prompt should have been a bash script.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...
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Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not.
Emergency officials are searching for loopholes to save lives as President Donald Trump slashes programs.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 28/05/2026
You obv. have to hide from the corporates, hack inept SecSys and cargo bots along the way. In between learning all you can about proper human behavior form the entertainments you download. Natch.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 28/05/2026
Chatting in Slack about IP that needs to be a game, I got a fully fleshed-out vision of a Murderbot game: You play as a rogue secunit trying to blend in. You have "memories" from Murderbot that unlock as you stumble from adventure to adventure, saving humans from themselves. MAKE IT HAPPEN. Plz+TY
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Very cool report out. Worth a read. Now I'm gonna rant a lil' bit:
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 22/05/2026
Every once in a while, I think, "Maybe I could do that [car] repair myself." Then I watch a professional technician do the repair and break 3 plastic hoses, raising the repair bill & the amount of time the car is unusable. So no. I will not be doing that. You go, professional-technician-person.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 22/05/2026
introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live… hmm, let’s see Smashing Pumpkins Garbage Bare Naked Ladies Live Metallica Stabbing Westward Weezer Greenday Eve6 Evanescence
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 20/05/2026
I'm apparently funny today, on LinkedIn at least. 6 "funny" emotes. I'm ready for my Netflix special now.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 20/05/2026
Taxation is the membership dues of living in a functioning society. You want netflix? You pay them. You want rule of law, an educated workforce, interstate commerce, and national security? Great. Pay the dues.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 20/05/2026
Do you have a name that's super common? I just fell down a rabbit hole of folks with my name. They're copywriters (some good, some great, some grifters), musicians, coders, fiction writers, real estate agents, and Taylor Swift's tour manager.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 20/05/2026
"Google Sans Flex" is a fantastic font with a terrible name.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 05/05/2026
This is hilarious and sad in equal measure. Keep on keeping on. Some of us are right there with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...
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A Masterclass in Manipulation
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 04/05/2026
Reminder: You cannot give what you, yourself, do not possess. That means you cannot calm others unless you can be calm. You cannot heal others unless you are healthy. You cannot excite others if you are not excited. Remember that as you're doomscrolling, ignoring things that don't actually suck.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 03/05/2026
"Quiet" and "quietly" are the new em dash. You know because nothing is happening now quietly.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 25/04/2026
Someone who is clearly not enjoying my story is hungrily devouring it and angrily commenting as they do. I love it. #royalroad
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 22/04/2026
When you post gushingly about terrible people on LinkedIn using unedited Claude text... that's an unfollow.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings." lithub.com/its-getting-...
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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.
Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.
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Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 10/04/2026
Radical thought: Pursue impeachment now BECAUSE IT HELPS YOU WIN MIDTERMS IN NOVEMBER. People want fighters. Call things what they are (impeachable) and act accordingly (impeach).
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 06/04/2026
Depluralize a movie. Goony
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
what the actual fuck????
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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for in...
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 02/04/2026
Today. I wrote about leaning into not giving a f$%^ about whatever someone is telling you you need to pay attention to. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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We call it an attention economy. That makes your attention a valuable resource. How are you spending it? Most folks are unintentional about where their attention goes. They flit from distraction… ...
We call it an attention economy. That makes your attention a valuable resource. How are you spending it? Most folks are unintentional about where their attention goes. They flit from distraction t...
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 02/04/2026
Got it, Got it, Need it, Got it, Got it, Need it, Got it...
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 01/04/2026
Yes I want more Lady Astronaut stories. Doesn't everyone?
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name?
It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content.
You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name.
There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 23/03/2026
Beliefs are a stack of shit you hold to be true. They guide your behavior. Some are empowering, some are dis-empowering. Only you know which is which. One you know the difference you can replace them. Here's one I've been dealing with: I am useless without a team.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hugo nominations are due soon, March 28 in fact. As a friendly reminder, I'm eligible for Fan Writer. Check my work out at Reactor and Locus.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/03/2026
We're going to end up with a Netflix series about the making of Subnautica 2.
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the word subnautica that is on a water surface
Alt: the word subnautica that is on a water surface
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
OK. I'm gonna do something here with this discourse, and it's not ~really~ about cars. It's about the mindset of "I deserve this" and how that preempts the logic parts of the brain in ways which can hurt you. Here's a crotchety old man thread: (1/10)
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 16/03/2026
Growing up as developer in the aughts, I had a number of heroes. Some you may recognize. The fact that I am "friends" with many of them now continues to blow my mind. So for that reason, social networks super cool. For everything else though?
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/03/2026
Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | Me, Myself and My A.I. Sloppelgänger
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 13/03/2026
This is absurd. “How does the Hershey Company continue to position REESE’S as its flagship brand, a symbol of trust, quality and leadership, while quietly replacing the very ingredients (Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter) that built REESE’S trust in the first place?” Chocolate should have chocolate.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Think editing is a waste of time? Think again “Copy editors are the safety net that gives writers confidence. They are the traffic lights that alert everyone: Stop or Caution or Full Speed Ahead.”  (The article quotes the admirable John McIntyre, among others.)
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Think editing is a waste of time? Think again
In the fast-changing world of news, editors at the copy desk continue to be gatekeepers of quality and accuracy.
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 13/03/2026
More words for the word gods! Deities, I ask ya. When AI comes to town, meets the company's lack of strategy or vision and implements the half-assed roadmap leaving end-users paying for a damaged product, what then? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Your agentic AI ships in Q3. The team that could have caught the failure got their severance in Q1. Should be fine. Right? Nobody who watched that sequence forgot it. Bonuses announced. Layoffs…...
Your agentic AI ships in Q3. The team that could have caught the failure got their severance in Q1. Should be fine. Right? Nobody who watched that sequence forgot it. Bonuses announced. Layoffs ...
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 12/03/2026
As a former dim fourteen year old boy, I resemble that remark!
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Rob Allen @robspages.net · 12/03/2026
I wrote a thing! On AI and corp strategy. More specifically the lack thereof: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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You nailed the AI rollout. Strategy's still broken. Congrats on the world's most extravagant wrong answer. Here's the hierarchy no one wants to say out loud: No tactic is brilliant enoug...
You nailed the AI rollout. Strategy's still broken. Congrats on the world's most extravagant wrong answer. Here's the hierarchy no one wants to say out loud: No tactic is brilliant enough to save a ...
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