My 97 years old mother calls this morning.
Tells me my sister thinks she has had a stroke.
I say "Gee'sh mom! That's what ambulances are for. She should be calling 911!"

That wasn't the thing to say.

Lots of tears followed.

I call the sister.

"How are you? Mom says something is wrong."

"I'm ok."

"Well, could you call mom back and let her know? She's a mess right now."

Not the right thing to say.
Apparently, according to her, I have deep-seated anger.

I do now.

Just in:

Went to a bar tonight with the wife.
Met some wonderful people.
Made new friends.
Helped a local business.
Networked into an industry I've been trying to do for a year.
Drank alot.

It was a productive Tuesday evening.

Lovely view on a chilly evening on the roof in San Francisco.

Adam Schiff was on ABC This Week.
He's not seeking a leadership role in Congress.
!?
I'll bet he's arranging for an appointment to Feinstein's Senate seat because she's going to retire early.
(I know that her staff has mostly left and her dementia has worsened).
But, Gov Newsom is probably forcing him to endorse him for a Presidential run against Biden.
If he doesn't get the appointment it's because he stayed loyal to the President.

8 minutes into Face The Nation and I've learned more useful information than an hour of Meet the Press.

Hey @th3j35t3r,
If journalist were able to be immediately identified here, I'd configure a feed on them.
If they knew they could parachute into a large audience they might see CoSo as an attractive site.
Otherwise they have to start from scratch. That's, currently, Twitter's strategic advantage an CoSo could mitigate it.

Guo Pei exhibition at The Legion of Honor, San Francisco

I just asked if they had Goose or Belvedere for my martini.
The waitress asked "Is that vodka?"
Methinks she's new to this gig.

Took a walk along McCovey Cove to my dinner destination. This a section of San Francisco I've not experienced yet.

I'm actually on a subway going under the Bird site as I send this.
I half expected to see smoke rising from HQ when I took this a few minutes ago.

I think @th3j35t3r is going to have to seriously consider establishing a team to run COSO.

If he gets hit by a bus, this place is kaput.

I also think that there is room to build a collaboration environment for people to managed the site collectively. Think of it as real time Wikipedia, but for customer support, dispute resolution, and product management.

Development and sys-ops will still need to be a dedicated person/group.

After working in tech and consulting for decades I'm still amazed at how primitively organizations are run.

Management still doesn't really know what is wrong and what to fix. Actually fixing it is far downstream from knowing what is wrong, but that's where all the effort usually is focused.

Elon is yet another example.
Painful to watch.

Now all of that institutional knowledge is gone.

I suppose this is the journey of mankind: Two steps forward, one back.

Elon could have:
- Required every operation to fully document their processes, policies (explicit & implicit), role definitions & known issues

- Establish a company-wide dashboard measuring all ops

- Selectively reduce staff or automate & reduce staff where possible.

He didn't

Andy Mullen is a friend of mine.
He wrote this article for the SF Chronicle that is very relevant about today's political culture.

"This is a flagrantly dishonest attempt to undermine the integrity of San Francisco’s elections, and the leaders engaged in this Trump-like rhetoric should know better."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/election-san-francisco-redistricting-17587486.php

Pelosi just announced that she will not seek a leadership role in Congress.

I'm struck by the messy conditions the Russian soldiers leave behind in #Ukraine as they retreat.
It's consistently everywhere.

This reminds me of the really poor sections of the US. Communities with garbage everywhere. They've little else to do but they don't bother cleaning up their surroundings.

Theory for both: Extensive fetal alcohol syndrome.

We know Russia has a big problem with alcoholism. What if most of their mothers were constantly drunk during pregnancy?

Plausible?

#Ukraine