Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that were never swept or cleaned up because nobody seems to deal with those here either.
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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 “Type II misfit.” How I got there is the story.
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If a number of companies follow Twitter’s lead and start allowing full-time work from home indefinitely, a whole lot of neighborhoods will suffer major losses.
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Every day when I walked into my old office I’d pass a couple dozen people waiting in the lobby for their assigned interviewers to come down and take them up to a conference room where they’d spend the day being grilled by 5-6 different people. 90% of them would not get a job offer. Most…
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The impact of so many people working remotely for so long is going to have it’s impact. There are some things that we’ve already found to be wastes of time and money, that will never go back to “the way they were.”
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In 1945, some still expected the world to go back to familiar pre-crisis reality. They would be disappointed, as will those who are waiting for “the good old days” today.
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If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever “we’re part of the same group, you can trust me,” then you know you can’t. Honest players don’t need to resort to that.
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A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a software service. As big as it was, I doubt anybody will lose their job over the Microsoft Teams outage even though it had an impact on millions of paying customers….
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In January, I packed up and shipped everything I wanted to keep, got in the car with Flash, and drove to Seattle. I arrived on January 19th, checked in to my temporary apartment, and started work on the 21st.
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DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure.
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