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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]
Last Lectures
Way back in my year end review for 2021 I wrote, As part of that effort I’ve worked to build a culture in engineering where people coming and going is normal. We’ve started doing “Last Lectures” for… [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]
Human Communications Are Hard
Delays and technical issues bias us against others experiencing them. This comes from "Why are you so slow? - Misattribution of transmission delay to attributes of the conversation partner at the… [more]
2021: Year in Review
It has been quite the year! As the pandemic has been dragging on, ramping up, slowing down, generally continuing to drag on. Thoughts I am excited for 2022. 2022! How did that happen? This year has… [more]
2020: A year
…the Product Org — Here’s His Playbook | First Round Review Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency | AWS News Blog The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and… [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]