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Why am I not motivated in this excellent situation?
Once upon a time in 2011, I serendipitously stumbled on to a question on a stack exchange site I had never been to, and would never visit again. The title was so click-baity I just had to click! It was another programmer asking for help: Why am I not motivated in this excellent situation? As…
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I can probably use this like Twitter and relieve myself of the last social media I am addicted to. Honestly social media is really just centralized blogs with RSS and a share button.
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Speed
If a design is taking too long then it’s the wrong design Elon MuskEveryday Astronaut Interview This is by far the topic I get the most push back from engineers about. Even more than Software Engineering is Writing. They always want to go slower, more carefully. The idea of doing what they’re doing now but…
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How to break up big tech
Op-ed: Breaking up big tech by Jim Wallace Recently the Department of Justice announced they were going to start investigating the large tech companies for antitrust violations, potentially leading to breaking up big tech. It’s not surprising; large tech companies love to tell the story about how they are neutral platforms or common carriers and,…
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Cheesecake and Software Engineering
I think the people who liked the above tweet think I’m being funny by choosing a cake instead of a pie; that I’m suggesting that cake is superior to pie. But I’m actually being serious – Cheesecake is a pie not a cake. When you make pumpkin pie, you make the crust, then the filling;…
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One SSH Key to rule them all
I have searched high and low for a better way to use SSH key based authentication than what you learn in the default Linux tutorials. Those tutorials would have you generate one key per-machine/account and then on every box you SSH into add that to the authorized_keys file. What I want is a single key…
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Year of Focus
I like listening to Cortex because they are thoughtful about how they do work and they always give me something to consider. They recently had a discussion about how New Years Resolutions are terrible and instead you should have themes for the year. In the past I’ve been convinced that Goals are a really crappy…
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Stock Options
A colleague of mine today sent me this link from Hackernews that explains options ownership. I think it’s great! More people need to understand this stuff, and I’m very happy this is out there. It does remind me however of how complicated everything has gotten and that always makes me ask why? My colleague had…
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Minimum Viable Process
The following are a set of thoughts I’ve had watching a company grow from 60 people to 600 people – it’s not a complete thesis, but I wanted to put it out there to start getting feedback from people. Thoughts on Organizations Processes are sets of rules in the same way that computer programs are…