I’ve wanted to write my thoughts for quite some time, and yes I’ve been procrastinating. Let’s see where this leads us.
Output vs Outcome It feels like I have, during these last (say) five years, been constantly pushing the org around me to focus less on output and more on outcome. Not that output isn’t important - of course it is - outcome can only happen if there is some output from our work. But in the teams/orgs I’ve been in, many - if not most - of the goals were stated in the form of output rather…
Hello there. Back when I started working as a manager, I was really keen to make sure that all of the people reporting to me were happy. Happiness in my workplace was important to me, since I’ve had my share of workplaces which kind of sucked on the happiness-scale. Thing is, there was this one time a person on my team looked me in the eye and asked me why I cared so much about happiness. Shocked…
Last time I attended a DevOpsDays conference was in Gothenburg, 2011. At the time I worked as an Operations engineer, and the conference was really inspiring and useful for me for my day-to-day work. When I heard that DevOpsDays was coming to Stockholm some six months ago, I decided to treat myself with it - with the hope that it would be just as good as last time. I had my doubts - after all, in…
The Question In just over a week, I’ll be starting a new job - and they asked me during the onboarding process what kind of laptop I wanted. Did I want a Mac or a Thinkpad? This seemingly innocent question stumped me, mostly because I was hearing the following questions: Do I want everything to just work out of the box, or do I want hours of configuration to get GNU/Linux running the way I…
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So, today I asked my network on FB about if induction stoves were similar to gas stoves with regard to cooking Japanese rice the traditional way. I got many answers, but one of them was a question on how to make Japanese rice the traditional way. So here’s a step-by-step on how to do this. What you need: A rice bowl ( Ochawan ) … or a decilitre measuring cup. One normal ochawan is…
dyslexic-kids : I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating. Applies to recruitment as well.
kingjamesprogramming : Because of data abstraction, we were able to go forth to war
kingjamesprogramming : Correspondingly, (car z) is defined to be the Saviour of the world. Lol
kingjamesprogramming : With streams we can achieve the best of the land #Riemann streams. Mmmm. #sicp #kjb #markov
kingjamesprogramming : But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he set the bounds of the resulting controller sequence
5:32 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was neither sword nor spear found in the interpreter Lol Markov chains.
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When I started working at Spotify, I was overjoyed that the company allowed use of IMAP to synchronize mail. Since I was a mutt user, I set things up so that I could read and send mail using mutt when I was by my computer. When I was on the run I could always use the normal gmail interface. For all of the inherent greatness of mutt, there was one thing which annoyed me - changing folders takes…
eyareilrahc : See this… this is how it’s done. No “you don’t look chunky, you look beautiful.” No “you don’t look chunky” at all. Just complete acceptance. Yeah, you look how you do, and how you look is beautiful. Mama gets it. That’s how it’s done!
This whole pardoning of Alan Turing is kind of on my mind. I’m glad that he got recognition from the Crown, but isn’t a pardon something you give to someone who chose to do something wrong? Our justice systems in the West is based on the principle of Free Will. Given a situation, our system of justice assumes that a healthy adult has a set of alternatives to choose from before acting…
This is so frustrating. During the last couple of weeks, I’ve jotted down quite a few things I’d like to write about, but every time I actually sit down to write something I find myself losing focus. It’s happening right now. But damn it if I lose track this time- after all, I’m writing a meta-post, about Dang. Lost one hour on facebook.
So I’ve revived my blog after a hiatus of some four years. At this point, I’m kind of wishing that you’re thinking - Why? The great thing with writing a blog like this is that I don’t have to wait for people to ask me why- I can just assume that you did, and move on. Convenient? Yep :) Anyway. I started writing my thoughts on the web back in 1998, and continued to do so -…
Book a meeting with myself on Fridays. 30-60 minutes. Agenda Make list of stuff accomplished. Go through emails, slack/irc, calendar artifacts, notes, etc. Compare accomplishments with weekly goals. Reflect on goals for next week. Motivation I spent over a decade as developer/SRE. When I fixed a problem, wrote elegant code, or deployed a change, I got a strong feeling of satisfaction. As time…