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by koliber 3y ago
Not at all fine. As we’ve just seen, it’s a fireable offense.
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by koliber 3y ago
If you define luck to be exactly synonymous with chance, then you are right. There is a subtle difference between luck and chance. Chance is that uncontrollable randomness. Luck is a combination of chance, being prepared, noticing opportuni
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by koliber 3y ago
I’ve done it, kind of. We would do retrospectives and sometimes we would tweak the questions we asked as a result. Once we had two DevOps engineers who had a way of working that was causing problems. We added more questions to test for that
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by koliber 3y ago
It’s not that LLMs have mental models. It’s that people have mental models of how various things work. For example, many people have a wrong mental model of how an oven works. They think that if they set the oven for 350 F it heats with mor
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by koliber 3y ago
There is no perfect balance. If you have the awareness of the extremes you can adjust course. A little goes a long way. If you are see that your organization is too chaotic, you should put some structure and discipline in place to curb the
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by koliber 3y ago
How do these reverse password lookup services work?
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The waits cause all the pain(koliber.com)
2 points by koliber 3y ago|1 comments
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by koliber 3y ago
When we want to improve efficiency, we try to speed things up, add more power, or push people to do things faster. This makes intuitive sense and seems like the right thing to do. In many cases, it’s the wrong way to go about it and there a
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by koliber 3y ago
That is probably true. Such incidents are one of the costs of rushing things out to market. What is the share of newly created profits and seized market opportunities due to rushing things out? If the latter is greater then the former, in s
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by koliber 3y ago
If you'd like to go deeper into the subject of confusing shower water controls, I recommend the book The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman. The problem is not new. The study of human factors is fascinating. Don Norman is somethi
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by koliber 3y ago
The half door is not the root of the problem. When I was building my house I very specifically did not want a door in my shower. I wanted a fixed glass wall that kind of looks like the first picture in the article. We paid tremendous attent
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by koliber 3y ago
You are technically right. I don’t have the stats handy, but I am fairly confident that a large portion of the barter income is not reported.
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by koliber 3y ago
That’s right. It’s because of taxes. In the first example there are various taxes that you will pay. Income tax. VAT or sales tax. Maybe license fees. These taxes go to the government, who in turn uses that money in some way. In the latter
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by koliber 3y ago
Things like personal development, organizational design, team maturity, marketing, and selling seem like strange and foreign soft skills and concepts that your either have and understands, or not. There are models, mental frameworks, playbo
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by koliber 3y ago
It’s possible to develop those soft skills. Management concepts can be taught. It’s possible to teach a good engineer how to use existing management frameworks. Trouble is, often the learning materials are written in a way that does not “la
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by koliber 3y ago
Yep. Not sure how it happened. I copied the note to my personal notes. I also wrote a comment. I think somewhere between the "submit" click I cmd-v'ed. Woke up surprised today to see this. I can't remove it either. I&#x2
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by koliber 3y ago
This was a fat-finger mistake. I copied the comment for my notes and somehow fired off a cmd-v while in the comment window. My apologies. This was not the intent.
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by koliber 3y ago
The Secrets of Consulting", Gerald Weinberg advise against improving more than 10% of performance, and if so, of hoping to have any credit. Just like the article, his reasoning is that if you improve performance too much, it makes mana
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by koliber 3y ago
How did you go about figuring it out? I’m somewhere on this difficult path and would love to hear a good story. Contact details are in my profile if you’d be willing to share.
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by koliber 3y ago
Yep. There are situations where microservices genuinely add net value. In discussions like this one, people make valid points for microservices and for monoliths. Often, words like “large” and “many” are used without providing a sense of sc
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by koliber 3y ago
A checklist is helpful. It helps you to think of all the things that you would not normally think of. It’s not something that can be checked off 100%. It is a tool to bring your attention to things that would not otherwise occur to you.
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by koliber 3y ago
This is so true. Being a freshly-minted EM is a full time job. Learning how to be an effective EM is another full time job, through reading, reflection, and instruction. Shameless plug: I help EMs on this journey as a coach, advisor, and pa
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by koliber 3y ago
Most of my teams over the past 12 years were remote and doing programming or related work. Well over 100 people across multiple companies. We met online, often, but not always, using video, and almost all of them participated in annual on-
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by koliber 3y ago
This site is amazing! Hummingbirds are neat in and of themselves. The typography is pleasant, the illustrations nice, the interaction streamlined, and the layout and look & feel just right. Take the time to explore the rest of the site
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by koliber 3y ago
Neat post. It bent my mind in surprising ways. I guess I take the "permanent" structures as scripture and it would not occur to me to break through a wall, literally, when a situation would require it. At the same time, this is ex
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by koliber 3y ago
Mine looks like an annual calendar. A grid 3 wide and 4 down. Each box is a month. January is top-left, and December bottom-right. Each row is a quarter and starts with January, April, July, and October, respectively. If I had to pick a sha
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by koliber 3y ago
Recognizing that you are in a rut is a start. You’re already there. Some time ago I realized that there is a long-term rhythm and cadence to my life. The ruts are part of that. I learned to look for signs that show that I am getting into a
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by koliber 3y ago
It seems that the $1 is less about generating meaningful revenue. Instead, it’s a token charge meant to weed out mass bot accounts.
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by koliber 3y ago
It might be beneficial for you to officially disclose your side hustle to your employer. This way you can draw the line where your intellectual property and time separate from the company’s property and time. Consider this. You don’t post o
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by koliber 3y ago
> we tend to use our strengths to try to solve our problems even when another part of us would be more helpful in solving them This resonates. I once worked with a coach who helped me realize this. It was the proverbial breakthrough mome

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