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A really good book on this is "Turn the ship around". Your role is to improve your staff to be better in their jobs. Ignoring the Manager/Engineer caste system, there is a lot gene…

Lots of good advice there. I did pause on the "Be risk adverse". My take is - Be Risk Aware - know them, quantify them, manage by mitigating or having contingencies - Don't be Risk…

The following could be completely wrong... Bamboo is a grass, it doesn't layer bark. It's one and done. The internode distance is pretty much fixed once it hardens. The bamboo cell…

That happened to me. AMD stock certificate from 2006 received at about $10. They accepted it, were willing to transfer it into my account. Unfortunately, I had moved country and th…

To me, it isn't about the code itself, it's about communication, it's about a relationship with others through code, systems and architecture. Using the relationship analogy, when …

Externalization FTW! You don't know something until you try to spit it out in your own words in a way that make sense. As an example, you think you know what a bike looks like. You…

ChatGPT (gpt-4.0) is crazy omniscient. It doesn't diminish, the knowledge is like a fractal. You can zoom out, in, etc. I created a prompt that asks me a set of questions on a topi…

My background theory is around schematization. Our knowledge is a complex web of inter-related concepts. Some factual, some abstract. For audiobooks/read books, I look for 2 or 3 k…

100%. Just challenged the hacker news crew to draw a bike. See my reply to the OP.

For me, it's all about coherent externalization. Your brain takes shortcuts, you can think you understand what is going on, it's only when you need to communicate it you realize ho…

I feel I've got something similar. Memory encoding/recall via emotions I struggle with. I can understand emotions, but it seems to be more cognitive. So I struggle to share the sam…

This morning after being hit by Meta's layoff, I created a discord server for those affected, and those who might want to support them. It's quickly blown up to 500ish people, and …

I can go back 26 years. Sorry. It was a mixture of VGA CRTs and VT220's. I just missed token ring, New graduate, started in Australia at $35k. That's about $65k in current dollars.…

So he can't work on the product for the full week as per the article. What about looking internally about tools, techniques and approaches that can help him accelerate the team. It…

I agree with most of what is suggested in the article. However a big part is missing is the reality that there are a set of hypotheses (is that right) in play at any point in time.…

Ultimately it's a mind game. For the most part, we are all forgettable, and it doesn't matter what we do won't be memorable for most people. When you think about it, you are a sing…

I had just moved to Toronto in about 2002, and was waiting for an interview. I saw one of those microwave horns on a building in the distance. Puzzling over what it was. Interview …

Fully agree. There are huge nuggets of wisdom in old-school engineering. For example PERT is something that most people don't know about. But it's simple to apply in the real world…

Yay #noestimatemultipliers

Arggh. I hate multipliers. It's not poor estimates that need to be doubled. It's the lack of experience in identifying the complexity or likely risks in a project. So rather than m…

I like how he says little-a agile - what most teams use. big-a Agile I reserve for specific Agile methodologies. Most companies aren't willing to invest in the rigor and effort for…

Low Confidence = fast estimate = broad estimate high confidence = slow fast estimate = narrow estimate It's a scale that you can choose where you want to be.

That's actually a good hack. I tend to take a similar approach, but using approximate days in a fibonacci sequence. Start at the high end, will it take... years: NO quarters: NO mo…

+1 on the private subnet. You want to design your system so that if a network a critical misconfiguration occurs you don't open yourself up - you simply stop working. (Too many yea…