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a great work
A great work lies already to the hand of this generation; it should count itself happy, indeed, that to it is given the privilege of doing such a work. – Theodore Roosevelt (Vice Presidential… [more]
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]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
This article was originally published on the Voze Engineering Blog and is republished here for posterity. What do you look for in an engineer when that engineer is not the one writing most of the… [more]
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [more]
lab
…Read More About it Memorize a little app for learning quotes, scriptures, and poems by heart, practicing a paragraph at a time. It installs to your phone's home screen and works offline. Win the… [more]
Spotify Archivist
So for the last 10 years I've been adding songs to my Spotify liked songs. It's great but every once in a while a song comes on and I think... "do I really still like this song?" I… [more]
the megaphone
…Kim Scott calls the "Obligation to Dissent." She quotes him as telling an employee after a failure: "Well, it was your job to convince me I was wrong, and you failed!" . This is… [more]
help the person next to you
What kind of man makes it through Hell Week? That’s hard to say. But I do know—generally—who won’t make it. There are a dozen types that fail: the weight-lifting meatheads who think that the size of… [more]
Book Report - Rilke's Book of Hours
…Rilke after re-watching JoJo Rabbit where it his poetry is quoted. I wasn't sure were to start and so I started with the Book of Hours. It was beautiful. Rilke wrestles with his relationship with… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…of tweets . I want to expand on it, so I am going to quote all the tweets here and then try to explain more about the topics they are touching on. Try to take it a little bit out of stream of… [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]
The infinite power of people
…break from this email and read it. Welcome back! This pull quote from the top right of the PDF really hits the nail on the head for me: “What makes power dangerous is how it’s used. Power over is… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…to others but the things that we do. As my father used to quote Def Leppard "Action, action, gimme action not words." Another thing that stuck with me was the idea of "saving the cat… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…encompasses. Towards the end, the book features a poignant quote from Gino Bartali, "Life is like a giro d’italia, which seems never ending, but at a certain point you reach the final stage, and… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…change, the relationship between author and reviewer. This quote, "Given a (relatively) fixed time budget, increasing the number of referee reports means allocating a smaller number of hours to… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow This last Sunday we went on a light hike with my mother-in-law who is in the… [more]
Quote: Simple. Correct. fast.
When you are faced with these problems, you must seek out the simplest way they can be solved. This may be difficult to do: perhaps the problem is too large, or perhaps you were actually considering… [more]
Direct Feedback
…negative feedback, so that I knew how to get better. This quote reminds me of a a training meeting I was in a while ago for leadership in one of the local congregations of the LDS church. We were… [more]
On Bikesheds
The really, really short answer is that you should not. The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one… [more]
you’re a journeyman
"The secret is never forgetting that you’re a journeyman actor and that nothing is your final thing, nothing is your greatest thing, nothing is your worst thing. I still consider myself a… [more]
Vetting Information you read on the internet
…text, copy it, paste it into google, wrapt it with double quotes to force exact matches, and look at the results. Does it look like a network of sites posting the exact same thing? If so this is… [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]
Now.
A quick quote to tide you over until the big write up lands... “Everything is instant gratification and the problem is too many people have applied that instant gratification to their careers and to… [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]
people and connections
"I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; and when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance and strength… [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]
begin it
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius,… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
…Which brings us back to the article and this phenomenal quote: Learning to design is, first of all, learning to see. Designers see more, and more precisely. This is a blessing and a curse—once we have… [more]
Getting Lost and Happiness
On the one hand, we are hard-wired to focus more on negative things. But at the same time, we are also all hard-wired to be seeking a sense of happiness and the desire to flourish, and to be the best… [more]
Education, Money and Happiness
There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is… [more]
Quote: How Fiction Ruined Love
"Films like When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) are typical in centering the action entirely on the run-up to the start of a relationship. But for most of us, our… [more]