TheAceOfHearts 3 days ago

I was recently reading an article by a Twitter engineering team member discussing how they're reworking a microservice and kept expecting them to mention Galactus at some point. It lives rent-free in my head. This video is a true masterpiece.

  • mewpmewp2 3 days ago

    I like to sneak in a Galactus reference during system design interview rounds when I feel like I'm about to overengineer the whole thing. I haven't done many recently, but for sure if I'm doing interview rounds, I will try to sneak in some Krazam references.

DoctorDabadedoo 3 days ago

Mine is "leadership sync":

https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06

If you ever worked in a dysfunctional org this video speaks volumes.

  • mewpmewp2 3 days ago

    These are all great, and for me it's even weird to pick a favorite because somehow he's managed to put so much genius into all of those videos and in so many multifaceted ways, it's beyond me. What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately?

    I just don't get how he can have had all this experience and at the same time be able to come up with those creative videos while still holding those insights. Because there's so many clever little things implying he's seen a lot. And created those videos in parallel.

    • narism 2 days ago

      > What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately?

      One of them has been at Amazon for a while.

    • throwaway48540 2 days ago

      Seems like an accurate set of experiences of a 10-20 years long career.

  • swyx 3 days ago

    this signal the death of the passive aggressive "take this offline" for me

    also favorite comment "This video captures the absolute weirdness of millennials and zoomers inheriting the bureaucratic systems created by baby boomers"

    • mk12 3 days ago

      I find it weird how so much generation discussion seems to skip gen x. I see references to boomer, millennial, and zoomer/gen z way way more often than gen x.

      • Apocryphon 2 days ago

        Gen X’s arc was going from Reality Bites/Wayne’s World slacker grunge culture into the stultifying white collar Office Space of the Matrix and then disappearing from the zeitgeist entirely after 9/11 made Fight Club’s ending sort of real.

      • pram 2 days ago

        As a Genuine Millennial (1986) who works around a lot of Gen X, I don't really perceive much of a difference between us tbh.

      • dpkirchner 2 days ago

        We are the "meh" generation -- I'm happy we're overlooked.

xarope 2 days ago

for a few seconds I thought he was describing OAuth and OpenID... /j