Search Results: life
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…same conlusion from the other side in The Shepherd's Life , and I have thoughts about what a mixed seniority team has in common with a mixed planting... but that isn't the topic at hand, which… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…to kill them. You just get to disappear. Vanish. Make a life somewhere new.” Revenge? My anger about the tape vanished. That thing had had friends? A family? No. Things don’t have family. The thought… [more]
Safe Homes
…their land of food, Because they judged them Unworthy of life, and care, Coming here to work, In inhumane conditions, Lungs, clogged by coal and cotton, Still better then the gnawing death, left… [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
…but just using a JSON file, or yml file. To make my life easier in the future, and maybe yours, I took those thoughts and produced this template repo . It gives us a nice central place to keep… [more]
Last Lectures
…the things they have learned in their career, and in their life. Relevant to work or not. With that explanation of the ask they come up with the most amazing lectures. They talk about what they have… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…of the most rewarding things that you can be a part of in life, and to lead is to engage in that process every day with your team. Ground your leadership in data, focus it on the people through… [more]
Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
…sticks with us long into adulthood. How many of us pursue life and career to somehow earn the approval of a parent we’ve sought since childhood? Yeah. It’s a short but deep book. Well short for… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…from this book was the idea that there is no exposition in life. We certainly all indulge in exposition, but it is the things that we see others do that reveals their character. Not the things that… [more]
Book Review-The Ocean at the End of the Lane
…highlight a ton, but I did find myself reflecting on life, and memory, and childhood’s big and little traumas. Something I suspect that most readers will be prone to with a book that includes lines… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…list. "The Road to Valor" delves into the life of Gino Bartali, one of the great Italian road racers. Bartali's claim to fame lies in winning two Tours de France with a remarkable decade… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…around this presidency more than any other in my lifetime. There is going to be a lot, and Woodward’s journalism gives us a good start. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi Emotional read,… [more]
Antisemitism ends with us
…division, and of those who seek an easy answer to their life’s challenges. No, we have to take the hard road. First we must look inward, do any of those ideas resonate with us even the smallest… [more]
2020: A year
…A must read for anyone leading a team. The Shepherd's Life - James Rebank It will have you wanting to move to the lake country and start a farm. Beautiful prose. Powerful ideas. Interesting discussion… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…time. Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software by David Scott Bernstein This book is terrible. Not worth it. Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic… [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]
ambition. life's work.
…The idea that ambition is the thing that guides us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and… [more]
ambition. life's work.
…The idea that ambition is the thing that guides us to our life’s work is interesting. I think it is possibly more complicated then that. That our ambition highlights the things that interest us and… [more]
Getting Lost and Happiness
…pig, who lives inside a box. He wanted to replicate that life for himself. — Raj Raghunathan [more]
Education, Money and Happiness
…spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to make life decisions independently. But research into happiness has also yielded something a little less obvious: Being better educated, richer, or… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…The things that were a pain and the things that made life hard. Problems You need Docker A whole lot of the internals don’t work on OS X currently. It seems mostly tied to the way that the… [more]
Quote: How Fiction Ruined Love
…to the start of a relationship. But for most of us, our life’s problem isn’t finding a partner (that’s just one very important and at points thrilling phase), it is tolerating the candidate one… [more]
mourning
…the Rockefellers were simply greedy. Things in history and life are never that simple. People do horrible things for complex reasons. They also do wonderful things for complex reasons. It is ok for us… [more]
reducing noise
…of things to reduce the number of interruptions in my life and work and I thought I would share a few of them here for posterity. Goodbye Facebook Just kidding. I am not leaving Facebook. It solves an… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
When I was young I thought humility was placing yourself below other people. To believe that they were better than me. To subserviate myself to their opinions and requests. I thought of the… [more]
The peace of the meadow was shattered by…
The peace of the meadow was shattered by the crack of a rifle. I lay frozen on the ground. Searching as my life pooled around me. [more]
There is a Right Way
…experience contained some lessons that have shaped my life, and, less often than they should, my development, and design. The first lesson, is that taking the time to begin correctly saves you time in… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…ways, been a great thing for the developed world’s lifestyle as it dramatically reduced the cost of goods. Just stop and think about the reduction in the cost of a computer, earphones, or… [more]