Charity Majors
Person on 4 sites
Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, an observability company.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Honeycomb: Co-founder and CTO; her co-founder Christine Yen is CEO (opens wiqqi.app)
- Earlier: Linden Lab, building Second Life; Parse; Facebook, after it acquired Parse (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly) (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @mipsytipsy (opens x.com)
“My calendar is increasingly clogged up by these spam "meetings" like these. Assholes like @RateMonsters seem determined to kill off what little remains of the open internet. How much of a disgusting bottomfeeder do you…”
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Newsletter: charity.wtf (opens charity.wtf)
“If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?”
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Bluesky: @charity.wtf (opens bsky.app)
“Ah, I miss live tweeted recaps from the glory days of tech twitter! Here's a thread of my LDX3 talk, "what handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code". Thanks, Heidi!!! With a hat tip to @chadfowler.com,…”
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x.com: @mipsytipsy (opens x.com)
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57 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Psychological safety matters because it enables learning, which leads to higher performance, not because it makes people feel safe (opens korrents.com)
“But psychological safety isn't important because it makes us feel safe, it's important because it enables learning, which leads to higher performance.”
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Making a team happy is not a manager's job, and a manager who cannot disappoint their reports will never lead effectively (opens korrents.com)
“Making your team happy is not the job. Someone who can't handle disappointing their direct reports or making them upset will never be an effective leader.”
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The more personal or relational an interaction is, the more AI-generated content in it tends to cheapen it and degrade trust, unless AI has been specifically invited in. (opens korrents.com)
“The more any interaction is personal or relational, the more the use of AI in that context tends to cheapen it and degrade trust, unless AI has been specifically invited into that relational context.”
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Psychological safety matters because it enables learning, which leads to higher performance, not because it makes people feel safe (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Blood Rites: On The Origins and History of the Passions of War (opens rcmnd.app)
“But I was hooked within ten pages, my mind racing ahead with even more evidence than she marshals in this lively book.”
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Blood Rites: On The Origins and History of the Passions of War (opens rcmnd.app)