<h1 id="jeffrey-snover-on-powershell-when-i-was-doing-the-prototype-for-what-became-powershell-a-friend-cautioned-me-saying-that-was-the-sort-of-thing-that-got-people-fired-i-didnt-get-fired-i-got-demoted--twitter">Jeffrey Snover on Powershell: "When I was doing the prototype for what became PowerShell, a friend cautioned me saying that was the sort of thing that got people fired. I didn’t get fired. I got demoted." / Twitter
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<li>source: <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200">https://mobile.twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200</a></li>
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<p>While this ended up working out well for Jeffrey, could have also gone very differently. </p>
<p>Powershell itself is an interesting case study for another day. Structured outputs (eg. json) vs text (linux)</p>
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<li><a href="/notes/bkf9crw2etf0ktwx5d0mr6e">Nice Rich People</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/dj6o3fydm1mmahm5ufgs2rb">Survivorship Bias</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/292xk5tzw6tv3d5m0zjag6n">Worse Is Better</a></li>
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<li><a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #00555a;" href="/notes/96gsbzrrd4aspgn9wds4zrp">area.people</a></li>
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Jeffrey Snover on Powershell: "When I was doing the prototype for what became PowerShell, a friend cautioned me saying that was the sort of thing that got people fired. I didn’t get fired. I got demoted." / Twitter


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## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

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