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Multipliers - Notes
June 23 2022 · books software-engineering
Multipliers - How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman is a book filled with MBA self-help lingo. I read it on the recommendation from a colleague and in between the narrative case studies got some real value out of it. The book’s premise is that a leader can act as either a …
Luck Surface Area
Opportunities arise at random - in life, nature, and work. Luck Surface Area is an idea of increasing your exposure to these opportunities. We default to staying in our comfort zones and operating within those safe and familiar boundaries. This makes life predictable, but it also puts us in …
Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices
June 3 2022 · tech software-engineering
Three months into my first Big Tech gig I was talking to a mentor about the overhead involved with the way the organisation worked. Meetings for standups, tech huddles, refinements, retros and product reviews; Processes such as limiting work in progress, desk checks, spikes, stories, and tasks. …
Beaconsfield, Tasmania
May 26 2022 · tasmania travel-writing
The Beaconsfield Returned Services League Park has a WW1-era howitzer, a skate park, and a retired Australian Army leopard tank. The howitzer is aimed at cars driving along the main road, while the tank ranges an empty lot. Fifty years after manufacturing the howitzer the Germans also made the tank. …
