I asked a friend who completed his first year as an engineering manager. Here are the current issues he’d like to address for the future – How can he understand customers and stakeholders? How can he track every discussion thread? How can he exercise his technical abilities? How can he enhance his team? The primary […]
Three men make a tiger
A man named Pang Cong asked the king, “If someone claimed there was a tiger in the city, would you believe this person?” The king didn’t think so. He would dismiss it as a rumor. Pang Cong then asked, “If two people came up to you and said they saw a tiger, would you believe […]
Boxed in part 2
If you felt trapped in a job you didn’t enjoy – how do you find a way out? Imagine doing the same thing every day. You haven’t been able to change groups. You don’t have much luck finding a job outside because your skills are obsolete. You are able to provide value to your current […]
Encouraging the team to clean the espresso machine
If your company is swanky enough to have baristas and janitors on site to clean up the mess, this post isn’t for you. For the rest of us kitchen maintenance is important. Your office manager can’t cover everything. Not everyone has the same level of cleanliness because we all had different upbringings. As the manager, […]
Landing your first job as a junior engineer
As a junior developer, the job market can be difficult. Every job description appears to want an engineer with over 5+ years of experience in every language and every tech library. If you only know ChangeWorldLib 1.7.3 and not 1.7.4, you’re out. I hear from my friends in developer bootcamps, “I just.. want a job. […]
Me friendly metrics
Often I see a widget displaying disk space: 47% remaining or 162379 GB of space left. That’s not very useful. This is what I need to know: [Disk Space] 14 days and 10 seconds left If this is shows up on a critical system, I’ll begin to panic. I only have two weeks to shift […]
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