vladgiverts

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by vladgiverts 2y ago
I used story points for years with my teams and they worked "as advertised", which is they helped the teams understand the effort, complexity and risk for each story involved. When there was disagreement, it helped them dig deeper
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by vladgiverts 3y ago
Been using this on my Macbook Pro M1 to play Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart using XBox controllers. My kids and I love it.
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by vladgiverts 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Tungsten and borated polyethylene are best at shielding against different types of radiation. Dense materials like tungsten and lead are ideal for blocking gamma rays and x-rays, while borated polyethylene is better at
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by vladgiverts 4y ago
Speaking to the task size point, I’ve found (via leading a number of teams and training many more team leads) it’s possible to decompose any task into smaller tasks so that every task is within a small constant factor of each other. If it s
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by vladgiverts 5y ago
Soul Without Shame by Byron Brown. It fairly accessible and yet opened me up to a much more complex world of inner experience than I was able to perceive before reading the book.
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by vladgiverts 5y ago
> But there is something wonderful in watching a figure emerge from the stone unsummoned, feeling the presence of something within you, the writer, and also beyond you – something consistent, wilful, and benevolent, that seems to have a
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Warmspace: Deep human connection through a guided 1:1 video conversation(warmspace.io)
3 points by vladgiverts 5y ago|1 comments
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
It depends what you mean teachable. When a leader is when faced with a serious challenge, the crux of great leadership is being able to set one’s own ego aside and act from a place of groundedness and a clear and objective view of reality.
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
I agree that leadership isn’t “teachable” in the same sense that a skill or piece of knowledge is. But it can be supported and cultivated. It’s what I do for a living as a leadership coach. I don’t actually instruct anyone how to lead, but
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
There are so many articles that blame leadership for all that ails a company. To me, it seems a bit like saying "most program crashes are caused by runtime errors". While both are true, there are deeper explanations that can be mo
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
It’s a long story with a lot of nuance. To keep it short, most of my formal learning came from studying Integral Coaching at New Ventures West[1] and later participating in a Ridhwan[2] group. Both gave me a certain amount of healing and le
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
The saying “all models are wrong, some models are useful” seems appropriate here. The interviewee is arguing against both the correctness and usefulness of “sub-conscious thought” as a model for the human mind. But he seems to conflate the
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
Perhaps the problem lies with how our culture views the company as a “machine” (in a metaphorical sense) whose only purpose is to produce some useful output. All that matters is how can you tweak or modify the machine to be more productive
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by vladgiverts 8y ago
This is part of the reason I moved with my wife and two kids to The Netherlands. My girls were 5 and 8 at the time. Almost everyone here rides bikes here in a city of 350k (Utrecht). We don’t own a car and either ride our bikes or walk ever
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I Dodged a ‘Menial’ Job by Doing a Startup and Got Myself a Year of Humiliation(softsideoftech.com)
1 points by vladgiverts 8y ago|0 comments
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I'm helping leaders in technology find their purpose(softsideoftech.com)
1 points by vladgiverts 9y ago|0 comments
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by vladgiverts 9y ago
This post touched on an interesting part of human nature. So much of our personality and behavior is based on the identity that we create for ourselves. Most of that gets set in early childhood, but we keep adding to it with our latest expe
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by vladgiverts 9y ago
Interesting bit towards the end: "The UK Government said new vehicles driven by diesel and petrol engines will be banned from 2040 as part of efforts to tackle air pollution"
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Tesla revealing a self-driving semi-truck soon(theguardian.com)
1 points by vladgiverts 9y ago|1 comments