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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]
That’s what heroes do
…My room had a good view of the river and the city spreading around it. It was all here just like it was supposed to be. The map taped to the underside of the desk drawer. The photos taped under the… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…to work on, and what to worry about. Sidebar: if you are reading this as a leader of leaders... open up your linkedin. Find mentors for your team leads from your network if you don't have them… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…into this in the footnotes, and you should spend some time reading those articles to understand how to create safety for your team. You are probably going to need to do some work on you as part of… [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]
Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads
…to use terms like “the disjunctive normal form”. I was reading How We Turn Authorization Logic Into SQL and ran into “the disjunctive normal form”. So I looked it up . It is: an OR of ANDS . In SQL… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…Cosmere novel, that had somehow slipped through my reading list until this week. I was reading an article suggesting some ideas for how to jump into the Cosmere novels and they mentioned that Elantris… [more]
Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
…of how it functions is carried out here. So worth reading. It’s also a fun exploration of the result of small decisions and how they could have played out differently. Normally I point people to… [more]
Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…craft. Story telling is as ingrained in my upbringing as reading was. ↩ [more]
New Literature Section Added
…I had more direct control over. So now if you enjoy reading sometime decent, and sometimes terrible, writing there is a place to do that here. Honestly some of those nanos I love, and others are best… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…degree, this book was destined to find its way into my reading list. "The Road to Valor" delves into the life of Gino Bartali, one of the great Italian road racers. Bartali's claim to… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…Raake, and Judith Koeppe. I found this paper while reading Digital Body Language by Erica Dhawan. So far the book is good but I paused to dig into this paper that lays out some of the base research… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…Books This year I used a mix of audio books and normal reading to cruise through these. Here’s the list, along with short reviews. Wound up with right around 40 books for the year, which is… [more]
2020: A year
…this is MIT Press’ Distributed Work which I am still reading. So many highlights and notes. Hopefully in the future I can get around to writing more about the things I am learning in my new… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…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 categories, things… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…Once I had it running locally it started to be a matter of reading through the TinkerPop gremlin documentation . There is a lot of it. But it is reasonably good. I also started reading Kevin… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…since it is mostly a detractor from the experience of reading which is why people are there in the first place. Other design decisions have been drawn from this as well. Things like having the root of… [more]
Tides are fickle things, Paul thought. The days…
Tides are fickle things, Paul thought. The days we'd spent floating in them had shown that. Reading minds had become normal for us. [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…since most companies don't offer them. If you are reading this and have a some funding and want to try this model out, hit me up! Let’s talk. If you're boot camper, or future boot camper, find this… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
I was reading this wonderful article from ia and it occurred to me that jargon and seeing are related to each other. We know from research that Blue, my favorite color, is also one of the youngest… [more]
estimations and theory building
My team lead at Instructure , Dan Dorman passed this fantastic article from 1985 by Peter Naur around the team a few days ago. It’s entitled Programming as Theory Building and discusses the idea… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…code. I wish I could take credit for it, but I found it reading through someones pull request on git hub. When I find the project again I’ll post a link to it... Now it’s time for some hot… [more]
Hide the Admins
…posts on securing the railo admin. Particularrly after reading Marcos Placona’s post on doing this in Apache, I figured that something similar could be done in Cherokee. Turns out it can and… [more]
Trust and the Box
…12 lifted of the pad on its way to the moon, the telemetry readings in mission control went haywire. They became garbled and non-sensical. In Mission Control the engineers sitting at their consoles… [more]