Exactly. A good scrum master shields the team from the bureaucracy, facilitates the meetings while keeping them targeted and on-topic, and keeps everything running instead of slowing it down. They also coach the team in self-organisation.

There are far too many people that call themselves scrum masters that are actually just pressurising ticket managers.

The biggest problems with scrum, in my experience, are when the managers and directors don’t understand it and ruin it. I’ve been a few places that implemented SAFe, but to this day I don’t know what SAFe actually is beyond waterfall with pointless sprints. I’ve worked in a couple of places where the directors kept their noses out and scrum worked really well.

It makes sense to me that, since evolution is all about survival of the fittest, we have selfishness built-in. There are species that benefit from a collective collaboration, but if a few individuals in a colony abuse the colony’s nature they can win big.

I often wonder if the great filter is about a species shrugging off the selfish side of their survival instincts, and learning to trust in the strength of a colony.

The existence of billionaires suggests that we are not there yet. The good willed among us need to learn intolerance for the selfish to prosper long enough to break through the filter.

They also developed their own Rust UI library and open-sourced it.

Hangovers never seem to last beyond a sip of coffee, or hearing important news.

Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.

People seem to be more attached to ideas they had themselves, rather than ones others tell them. I suspect it’s more successful to lead them to a conclusion they feel they came to on their own.

Surely all plants adapted to be on the outside, unless the dinosaurs had greenhouses.