Viewing profile — itsmejeff

W1nning - Tim Grover Never Split the Difference - Chriss Voss Three Laws of Performance - Steve Zaffron Peak - Anders Ericsson All of these books fall into the category of rounding…

My process is to dig in and really try to apply the knowledge in some place where it is required to solve the problem. This has never failed me, but it’s hard, because it’s WORK. Y…

I really like thought exercises like this, but find it troublesome when authors (like this one) do not offer alternatives that address the weakness of the common approach, they jus…

This may be a bit of a paradigm shift on the original question, but I’ve found that arranging my software and project in such a way that “cognitive overhead” is minimized will make…

I’ve been pondering this a lot lately, as an engineering leader. Masters in my organization have an extremely high ratio of value shipped to hours worked. This means two things. Th…

I got bored with engineering because it became easy. The patterns always repeated, and I knew that the only thing standing between me and my desired outcome was a fully understood …

No, I already have two MS degrees (1 in Mechanical Engineering, 1 in CS) — I’m not interested in more school. Maybe that will change in the future.

Truthfully — the biggest thing has been leaning into my gut more as opposed to trying to reason through everything thoroughly. The decisions are many and the time is short. Kahnema…

When I got bored with software engineering, I decided to invest in developing leadership skills and to try to build teams. Many people (myself included) are motivated by the impact…

The best programmers I know write good code within the constraints of a fast paced business environment and they are also able to clearly articulate trade offs to stakeholders. The…

If it was important to your well-being you would have already addressed it. Delete it all and start fresh. Or just stop altogether.

“All these super smart people who came before me spent more collective time than my entire life, but the solution they arrived at is wrong “

This Freakonomics episode about what’s missing from the standard math curriculum is really good http://freakonomics.com/podcast/math-curriculum/

He calls it a "relative operating characteristic curve", then links to a Wikipedia article for the properly named "receiver operating characteristic curve". Maybe I'm wrong but I'v…

Jupyter Lab may be more like what you're after: http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/interface.ht...

It's almost trivial for computer vision to recognize a child -- we already have backup safety cameras to protect children (among other things), why not a backseat cam?

This article climbs the HN ranks once every few months... I'm a "real" engineer who chose to make my career in software. There are obviously things that this author does not know a…

The Nash equilibrium for an unlimited vacation policy is no vacation for anyone. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

I use http://marxi.co , which is an excellent markdown to Evernote tool. This has gotten me through many college courses. Working on my second MS right now.