Category: Career

My most important lesson

Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....

Starting over

I’m feeling ready to write again, and I’ve set up this new environment to do it in....

The Status of Status

Last week I presented some of my thoughts about status reporting to the Vancouver Software Development Managers. What do you think?...

In praise of simple tools

I write using Emacs and LaTeX. I'll grudgingly copy and paste to other formats because the organization demands it but I do better work with...

Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills

Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...

Rosh Hashana (New Year) Update

It's been a busy year with a lot of changes, both Covid-related and otherwise. As is my custom, here's my update for this circle around...

How I got hired at AWS

Being yourself matters as much as anything. And be nice to the airline staff. They can really make or break your life....

How I became “glue”

As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...