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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Answer depends on the outcome you're looking for.
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Modes of persuasion.
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If you subscribe to what Jim Collins called "the genius and a thousand helpers", then it's very possible Musk will be successful where he's currently guiding a thousand helpers. From that perspective, the bigger question
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I've worked in infosec for over 15 years. I've built security programs from the ground up at two companies. I've learned much of compliance/security is cargo culting and/or streetlight effect, if not radicalized. Yo
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https://xkcd.com/927/
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What gets measured gets done. Measure headcount, not outcomes, and bloat will be the result.
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Depends on your risk tolerance. Some entities can survive a single breached node, and some cannot. Those that have been breached, tend to be less tolerable (recency bias).
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There's a big difference between a "software engineer" and a "product software engineer". A software engineer builds to a well defined spec, that likely came from a waterfall process. A product software engineer get
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Should be: Trust, but sample to validate the right outcome. Didn't get the right outcome? Then understand how the system achieved the wrong result.
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I'm self taught and have teached many others. I highly recommend exercism.org over books, videos, or classes.
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Good ideas for startups. They work great under Dunbar's Number, and fall apart quickly after exceeding.
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What's the limiting factor of homomorphic encryption? Is it that it's provable? Is it the compute overhead? Is it too magical for governance?
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Survivor bias at it's best
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It's an OK book. Working Backwards echos many of the same ideas and is a better book IMHO.
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“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behavior.” – Eli Goldratt
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I get these all the time. Likely nothing and/or a low value report. Stay positive, thankful, and ask for more information.
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How can Amazon monetize a map of my home? If it's so valuable, then are there other companies recreating the map from public data (ie real estate pictures, county data, etc).
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There is no magical ratio. Brooks's law applies, but it's detriment can be acceptable, if it's not impacting customer value. Don't focus on the input variables (ie we have n engineers). Focus on the output variables. Wha
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Boulder CO https://www.rei.com/blog/cycle/here-are-the-most-bikeable-ci...
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https://xkcd.com/1658/ https://www.dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-10
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Read Working Backwards for the origin story of AWS. It was primarily to reduce cost of coordination.
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“Nothing In The World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not; Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent. Genius Will Not; Unrewarded Genius Is Almost A Proverb. Education Will Not; The World Is Full Of Educated De
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This strikes me as a good interview question, when selecting a company to work for. It's a quick test to understand ilities management maturity. Tech debt is likely high if there's little to no value placed on documentation, in fa
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Their privacy policy explains they're scrapping and purchasing data. https://rocketreach.co/privacy Information isn't current and is likely from a LinkedIn data dump. https://identitytheft.org/data
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Distill down what DevOps is, and it's just the pursuit of customer value through a learning organization. It's name has changed, and will change, with fashion trends. DevOps, SRE, doesn't matter. A name doesn't guarantee
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Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it does. -Deming Already doing regular retros? If yes, then are you capturing what's causing pain and is the team collaborating on how to fix?
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Check out obsidian.md and the many YouTube videos demonstrating how it can be used.
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The hardest thing with compliance is translation between engineering speak and compliance speak. Few engineers understand the whack-a-mole game of change control, but they understand how to design immutable infra.
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You need a "second brain". https://obsidian.md/

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