The article describes insight on how to gain leverage. Regardless of promotion plans, it's good to have leverage in the current economy so your career doesn’t end prematurely when the company goes to cost-saving mode.
It's a common pitfall to measure what's easy. OTOH, the calculations can be quite arcade and hard to relate to. Many observability platforms have something in place but they leave more to be desired.
Service Levels can be quite simple at a high level but as soon as you start implementing them, the calculations can quickly become abstract and hard to understand.
Use case: Putting a link in your pages (e.g. blog posts or newsletters) to make it easier for your readers to share it on Hacker News. It is open source.
Yes, that's the inspiration. The difference is that this one generates a link (rich or plain text) that can be put in a web page. It doesn't require the audience to have bookmarklet installed.
> To keep the committee alive, it expands scope, recruits more people, and assimilates their mandate to the hive. Internally it feels like a grass-root movement on the rise. In reality, it’s about repurposing an expensive tool (recurring meetings with high-pay participants) for every problem. It may even emit some manifesto or generic vision and mission at this point.
One leg of the problem is the environment that allows the committees continue way past their expiration date. How can they get away with it?
Amazon layoff caused a lot of uncertainty internally. Inflation made some people work extra and some picked a side gig. Turns out the percentage of people who think they are being monitored is less than the managers who do monitor them! Meanwhile tax-breaks and municipalities have a say in forcing the employees to come back to the city.
The article is in favor of hybrid work but with a policy that doesn't back-fire with attrition of top talent and hurting the economy long term. There's also one example RTO policy.
