Caleb Phillips @_calebp

I partner with companies to provide trusted engineering support without the overhead of a full-time hire. Leadership, architecture, hands-on development. calebphillips.com Nashville, TN Joined February 2010

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Caleb Phillips @_calebp

a month ago

I'm available for software consulting / fractional engineering work with 25 years of experience helping teams exceed expectations. - Clojure, Datomic, AWS - Integrations (NetSuite, commerce platforms recently) - Architecture, system design - Technical leadership, coaching More…

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

4 months ago

Clear tactics are for handling the problems clear principles would have prevented.

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Noah Phillips @Noahph1ll1ps

10 months ago

Some wise words from @mikeerre on @HolyPostPodcast to remember this Election Day “If I have to break the clear commands of Jesus to fulfill what I THINK is the agenda of Jesus, it’s no longer Jesus I’m following.”

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

Loyalty is doing a what without needing a why. Agency is needing a why so you can figure out a what.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

If you make decisions at 80% certainty, you'll thrive. If you make decisions at 100% certainty, you won't ever make them. This "thriving" I mention is not bias to action. Bias to action is making decisions at 10% certainty, which fills your path with preventable mistakes.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

People who believe they have execution problems actually have hiring, leadership/motivation, and cheapness problems. They undermine execution at the personality level (bad hire), the motivation level (bad leadership), or the cheapness level (self-explanatory).

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Dan Luu @danluu

a year ago

Really nice startup postmortem that gets into specific reasons the founder thinks the product failed: feelmuddy.notion.site Most startup/product postmortems I read feel like some variant of "we were just too awesome and the world wasn't ready us", but this feels real.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

You will rarely be right if you believe you are right. You have to wonder about how you might be wrong. Give it some thought. If you can't figure out how you are wrong, you're very likely to be right. That's how to be right frequently instead of rarely.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

Everyone wants to hear that it will be easy, cheap, fast, and that anyone could make the same mistakes. As a truth teller, it's hard to say any one of these things, because: - nothing worth doing is easy - cheap guarantees failure - fast guarantees mistakes - those mistakes…

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David French @DavidAFrench

a year ago

The next couple months are going to be full of accusations that a person can't be a Christian and vote how they're voting. Ignore those voices. There is no credible argument that our vote defines our walk with God.

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David French @DavidAFrench

a year ago

Good people will vote for Harris. Good people will vote third party. Good people will vote for Trump. I don't think each vote is equally correct, but our vote does not define our character. How we treat people does. It's the ends-justifies-the-means ethos that corrupts us.

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David French @DavidAFrench

a year ago

What's fascinating about the angry reaction to this tweet is the way in which so many people seem to discount the idea that you can be a good person and still make a mistake, even a serious mistake. I think voting for Trump is a serious mistake, but that doesn't make you a bad…

David French @DavidAFrench

a year ago

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

When the team asks why they are doing something, that can definitely be taken as insubordination, but before you tell them to just do their jobs, consider this instead. They are telling you they don’t know why they are doing something. This is not good. A human being that…

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Startup Archive @StartupArchive_

a year ago

Jony Ive: “You have to reject reason to innovate” “If it hasn’t been done and it’s of value, there’s really good reasons it’s not been done. And so when you’re confronted with those reasons, you’ve got two choices. You can say, ‘Oh, that’s a very good reason, I’m sorry for…

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

Process is a great way to get people to think harder before they take action. And once they start thinking harder, you won’t need the process.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

Bias to action is the popular thing to say, but we really want a bias to impact. Don’t imply to the team that action itself is good or has any value. Imply instead that impactful action is good and has massive value. Humans are designed to both think and act.

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Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe

a year ago

Disagreement is what happens when at least one person is wrong. Agreement is what happens when both people are right...or, if both people are wrong in the same way. Agreement isn't the goal. Getting it right is.