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Ryan Singer

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Product end-to-end. Creator of Shape Up. Prev: 37signals. [email protected]
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    Ryan Singer
    @rjs
    Aug 20
    This is why architects use very small scale models.
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    Ryan Singer
    @rjs
    Aug 20
    To "see" architecture, in code or buildings or whatever, requires seeing with your mind and not your eyes. The eyes see a million details that are not the architecture. Maybe that's why "design", "modeling" etc are more senior tasks. Because you have to see the macro among all
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    Ryan Singer
    @rjs
    Aug 20
    To "see" architecture, in code or buildings or whatever, requires seeing with your mind and not your eyes. The eyes see a million details that are not the architecture. Maybe that's why "design", "modeling" etc are more senior tasks. Because you have to see the macro among all
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    Ryan Singer
    @rjs
    Aug 19
    Yes. "State management" is a red flag that an intentional architecture and data model are missing.
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    Devin Jameson
    @devinjameson
    Aug 19
    In frontend we have this strange term “state management”. “We’ll reach for a state management solution when things get complicated.” Weird way to approach the conceptual core of your program. Why not state modeling? Or really, application modeling? And why not model it
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    Ryan Singer
    @rjs
    Aug 14
    In the early days at Basecamp, I learned that “project management is communication.” The addition to it is this: project management is design. Everything depends on the actual design of the change. Scope, timing, cost, performance. Who needs to be involved and when. Whether