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Action items during incident reviews

· September 30, 2024 · 2 minutes to read

Lots of insights here I agree with… The gaps in our understanding of how the system works contributes to incidents. Because we don’t have a full understanding of how the system works, we can’t ever fully reason about the impact of every single change that we make. I’d go so far as to say that, […]

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Comfortable with the struggle

· August 6, 2024 · 1 minute to read

If I had to pick one trait, it would be the ability to be comfortable with “the struggle”. That part of the day/hour/minute where the code isn’t doing what you expected, things aren’t looking like they should, or where things are going wrong and you don’t know why. If you can be comfortable with the […]

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Layoffs, Pendulums, Layers, and Gemba Walks

· June 23, 2024 · 1 minute to read
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Bookending

· May 8, 2024 · 1 minute to read

at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine.[…]Then, spend ten or perhaps fifteen minutes reflecting on your day.[…]Then, in the morning, when you open up your machine, there should be nothing yelling at you—no unread badges, no cluster of notifications calling for your attention. At that point, you can […]

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Why you need a “WTF Notebook”

· April 22, 2024 · 1 minute to read

There’s no faster way to totally sink my credibility, as a new team member, by making a huge fuss over something that’s not a problem, or that the team doesn’t see as a problem, or that there’s already an effort to fix, or that there’s a really simple way to fix that I just didn’t […]

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Some excellent words

· April 14, 2024 · 1 minute to read

https://taylor.town/words

A corpulent and didactic panoply of eldritch lexemes, munificently dispersed

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How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership?

· April 13, 2024 · 2 minutes to read

Another excellent article by Chelsea Troy on how common ways to evaluate technical leadership contributions (and knowledge work in general) fail. The section on Positivity really resonated: the pursuit of creation lives in contrast to some of the most useful products of the knowledge worker: the absence of a security breach. The curtailment of a […]

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Phil Gyford’s Weeknotes

· October 29, 2023 · 1 minute to read

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/tags/weeknotes/

Similar to my Journal.

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Just… / discomfort

· April 2, 2023 · 1 minute to read

“We just need…” Justing kicks in when the tension between the conceptual understanding of a problem’s intricacies and the practical need to make decisions and take action reaches a breaking point. For some people, this happens earlier than others. People “wired for action” and prone to very linear thinking break sooner and sometimes instantaneously. People […]

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TBM 44/52: Dissonance, Diffusion, and Debt

· October 27, 2022 · 2 minutes to read

TBM 44/52: Dissonance, Diffusion, and Debt A person (A) keeps asking their manager (B) for a much-needed tool. The manager hits their limit and shifts the load to a purchasing manager (C), who they know will not reply. C has adapted to protect themselves from directly saying No. A eventually resigns themself to not getting the […]

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Dmitri Vassilenko

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Backend distributed systems developer, living in southern Ontario, Canada. Occasional rock-climber, frequent video-gamer. Jack of no trades, master also of none.

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