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Ronnie Chen
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · May 3
have heard myself say "next week looks a little lighter so i should be able to follow up on this" for about two months straight now

but next week i should definitely be able to catch up
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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 11h
I'm afraid that I have -- once again -- dramatically overestimated my productivity and have fallen far behind on my goals.

But tomorrow, I'll totally be able to do all the things I didn't do today plus all of tomorrow's tasks, right?
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 16h
thank you for your service
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 17h
never going to make it to staff parent if i don't get my shit together
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 17h
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 18h
if anyone else needs executive leadership coaching, he's got some slots available after peewee soccer
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 18h
the utter humiliation of trying to do my engineering leadership job after getting brutally roasted by my 5 year old this morning for not asking him to get ready for school "kindly, and with confidence"
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
*waking with a start*

everything will rhyme if you just use a Beijing accent
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
ooh, what is the Mandarin equivalent of sizing tasks as "a snail, a quail, or a whale" or @mcfunley.com's "a frog, a dog, or a hog"

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Tim 🏒 🎃 @tim.ink · 1d
At a company that had a hard time with points =\= days I had them use estimated in pumpkins.
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
if only someone compiled all of this documentation into an easily readable format! the manufacturers could even do it and include it with the product!
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
every recipe can be a one bowl recipe if you're not a coward
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
i have great news for you about Burpees
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
me: i'm not going to watch the video, i just want to read the content because it's faster and easier

also me: *adamantly refuses to read or even keep the instruction manual for anything i own*
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
sorry but 嘴， 腿，鬼 is objectively terrible
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
like finding out an ex is perpetually striking out in the dating pool after you break up
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
团， 盘， 船!!!!
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
米，笔， __？？？
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
maybe 兔 for the smallest to keep the animal theme
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
best i got so far is 书，乌，猪
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
ooh, what is the Mandarin equivalent of sizing tasks as "a snail, a quail, or a whale" or @mcfunley.com's "a frog, a dog, or a hog"

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Tim 🏒 🎃 @tim.ink · 1d
At a company that had a hard time with points =\= days I had them use estimated in pumpkins.
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
jerry, how do i run scrum meetings in mandarin
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
but also does anyone know how to say sprint points in Mandarin

maybe @bokane.org ??
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
prepping for Business Conversations™️ in another language and i'm pretty sure i'm embodying the midwit meme by trying to learn the vocabulary and the dimwit and genius choice is to just say the English words with the local accent
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
one of the googly eyes fell off so he started calling it his "one-eyed grabber snake" and when i tell you i found the fallen googly eye with a _quickness_ to circumvent that name sticking around...
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d
kiddo's kiwico box this month is a mechanical grabber stick and now i'm challenging him to pick up all of his toys on the floor one by one and it's working

please clap
a kid's mechanical grabber arm with googly eyes reaches for a yellow ball
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d
grabbed one for his birthday present, thanks for the rec!
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d
building up my immunity to jetlag by sleeping poorly before the trip
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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d
confetti cannon?
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