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What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
A while back I was reading James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State , and toward the end of it he goes on a long tangent about agriculture. Specifically about the high modernist urge to rationalize… [more]
Kid's Birthdays
…excitement Of awaited discovery To exclaim recognition And amazement Pressing in Until There is no room left To open Presents [more]
the megaphone
Megaphones are amazing. For nearly as long as we have organized into large groups, we have rolled materials into tubes and spoken into them to help carry our voices to the back of the audience. With… [more]
Last Lectures
…that explanation of the ask they come up with the most amazing lectures. They talk about what they have learned in their field, what they have learned in their life, and what they wish they had… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
“Well, don’t you think that you as the commander have an obligation to create a vision for your command?” It was more of a statement than a question. “No, I feel that my job as the commander is to tap… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
This last week, I had my leadership team in town for the first time in a while for some planning meetings, and some team building. I am always looking to learn from different disciplines, so I thought… [more]
The infinite power of people
This afternoon I was reading a theological book ( Jacob: a brief theological introduction by Deidre Nicole Green ) when I happened on a quick mention of power over vs power with. It sounded familiar,… [more]
Cultural Homogeneity
…They will hit hardest on kids moved into a nation with dramatically different expectations and cultural norms, then what they are used to. And mistakes are painful. So let's all take a look… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…years, explored in the book, are packed with more drama than your average feature film. The narrative touches on Bartali's formative years, marked by parental opposition to his passion for… [more]
Organizational Design Democracy And Ownership
…over. So the takeaway: People who have high ownership are amazing employees. But they will leave if they don't see a way to influence your company in a direction they feel is important. The… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…The implications of this for a remote work force are dramatic. Possibly more dramatic for the interview process. The paper mentions elsewhere that an increase in delay of 600 ms "was observed to… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…is the need to understand how to lead through periods of dramatic change. If you are leading people go learn about change management. You’re going to need it. Aside, Things that have worked for… [more]
2020: A year
…Aftershocks are awful. We were lucky though. Minimal damage to the house, and while the first buyer fell through we had the home under contract and sold within a week of the earthquake. Moving during… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
This is going to be a pretty straightforward list of what tech related reading I did this year. It doesn’t include hundreds of blog posts and forum discussion. I’ll break it into two… [more]
Life changed dramatically for Patricia the night she…
Life changed dramatically for Patricia the night she refused to leave the playground when her parents called her. The call of "bedtime!" Was the last word she would hear from them. It was,… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…in the person of others was beauty. That last part would dramatically shift the world, as we accepted that maybe beauty is something we innately posses, something that needs little augmentation, and… [more]
Jumping on the AMA bandwagon
…that this site is. Maybe soon. Or someone could ask in the AMA :-) [more]
So I got Scammed on Amazon
A couple of weeks ago I fell for scam in the amazon marketplace. Yep me. It was a clever one and not one I have seen written about so I am writing about it. The Setup I was in the market for a truing… [more]
So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.
…Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, a book with 4 stars on Amazon and completely flawed revisionist source material inside. I still think about the excitement I had when I discovered it cited the World… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…first. The most surprising finding of the survey was the dramatic increase in the number of Junior Developers with degrees in Computer Science(CS), or a related field. It was a massive shift from the… [more]
ambition. life's work.
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition… [more]
Being Senior Part 1- the books and data
This is just a quick post to throw up the books I quoted from and a link to the data for anyone who attended my presentation at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long… [more]
ambition. life's work.
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…get this out of the way right now. I love Io . It’s amazing. The syntax is elegant and clean and incredibly extensible. You can pretty much rewrite Io to be whatever you want it to be which is… [more]
Seven Languages
A few weeks ago we started a book club at work and we are running through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (but we are doing it in 14 weeks instead). So far the book is fantastic but I want to get even… [more]
2015: in review
…this year. Which is the greatest blessing ever! She is amazing and so is her mother. Couldn’t ask for more. 2016 looks like it is going to be pretty exciting! With a lot more writing around here… [more]
Learning the Trade
I thought I would throw together a list of resources I have found interesting and useful when it comes to building the internet. This is by no means exhaustive and will be updated over time as I find… [more]
Details. Details. Details.
A few days ago my wife and I had dinner at a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The food is delicious, especially the black bean ravioli. But they got an important detail completely wrong. The detail?… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…try this: ( 1 === 1 ) && alert('Johnny 5 is alive!'); yep amazing! It does the same thing as: if( 1===1) { alert(' Johnny 5 is alive!'); } Sure there are other short forms of that if statement that… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…build in a physical environment. So I started toying with Amazon Web Services and realized that there wasn’t a lot of documentation on the server combination I was planning to use. The whole… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…build in a physical environment. So I started toying with Amazon Web Services and realized that there wasn’t a lot of documentation on the server combination I was planning to use. The whole… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…cost of manufacturing goods was decreased, in some cases dramatically. I remember listening to a lesson in design school about the cost of manufacturing pots in China and how it was cheaper to produce… [more]
Trust and the Box
…one of the consoles preserved from the Apollo days I was amazed as he unfolded story after story about the people who had worked in these seats decades ago. One story stood out. It was the story of a… [more]