Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Three

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I've gotten better as an engineer and as a manager and leader over the last 20 years or so, I hope.  There are lessons I can point to ha...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Sweaters, Yarn, and Companies

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Think for a moment about yarn. Wikipedia will tell you that " Yarn  is a long continuous length of interlocked  fibres" which if...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

The Failure of Us

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[ As always: Not speaking for my company ] A long, long time ago, in 2011 in my first 2-3 months or so in Engineering after moving over fr...
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Monday, January 4, 2016

Quantifying Shield Strength, or "How Happy Am I In My Job?"

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A recent discussion in the Rands Leadership Slack of Rands' Shields Down article led to me sharing something with a few other people t...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

When You're Having Fun

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[ In case it isn't obvious: This is my private blog, and this is my private opinion ] Assuming you don't span two leap years, 2191...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Quantifying Personal Retention Impact: A Mathematical Thought Exercise

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When I was promoted to managing the Insight Engineering group at Netflix, my manager sat down with me and said "these are incredibly sm...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

After-Action Report: The Asus PB287 4K Monitor

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Sometime about two weeks ago, I mentioned I had asked my desktop group to get me a 4K monitor.  Now that I've been using it for two whol...
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