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Action items during incident reviews
Likes Why I don’t like discussing action items during incident reviews – Surfing Complexity. Lots of insights here I agree with… The gaps in our understanding of how the system works contributes to...
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[WN 20240818] Move prep
🚚 The moving prep. It has begun. Truck and movers booked. Internet service transfer scheduled. Garage, closet, and a couple of kitchen cabinets cleaned out. It all feels real now, and emotions are...
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[WN 20240811] Scootin-n-bikin
A month-and-a-half note! 🛴 My e-bike experience from last weeknote must’ve had a strong effect, because I splurged on an e-scooter while it was on sale. Truthfully, I’ve been thinking about getting...
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Comfortable with the struggle
If I had to pick one trait, it would be the ability to be comfortable with “the struggle”. That part of the day/hour/minute where the code isn’t doing what you expected, things aren’t looking like...
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My local WordPress dev environment
I wanted to make some changes to the excellent Autonomie theme, but because I’m yet a WordPress development tyro I wanted an environment that I could break. At the same time I didn’t want to manually...
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[WN 20240623] House search over
I missed a couple of weeklies. It’s not that things have been terrible, but many days felt repetitive, mundane, and often without any accomplishments I could feel good about. That culminated in a...
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Layoffs, Pendulums, Layers, and Gemba Walks
One concern is that leaders may be over-indexing and blaming individuals for their current predicament. They believe that if they magically had legions of “A-players,” they could continue as they did...
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[WN 20240602] Weather shenanigans and video games vs core needs
The weather is unpredictable this time of year. Last Saturday, however, it was quite certain: rain all day. So, naturally, I went for a long gravel bike ride. I’ve never been this soaked and dirty for...
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[WN 20240520] Chili crunch / Hades God mode
Has it been two weeks already? Oh man, it’s all a blur. Anyway. Chili crunch. 🤤 I’m not much of a foodie, so no apologies for being late to this trend. I’m hooked and have been eating way too much of...
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Bookending
at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine.[…]Then, spend ten or perhaps fifteen minutes reflecting on your day.[…]Then, in the morning, when you open up your machine, there...
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[WN 20240505] Groundhog Week
Felt like a repeat of last week. Very bleh, two stars, do not recommend. I considered skipping outright, but that’s how completely abandoning the practice starts. So, here’s a very crappy update...
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[WN 20240428] Unreflective
The general anxiety and unease from last week persist. I didn’t feel particularly introspective or reflective. My Wednesday journal entry is literally titled “I don’t even know what happened today”....
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Why you need a “WTF Notebook”
There’s no faster way to totally sink my credibility, as a new team member, by making a huge fuss over something that’s not a problem, or that the team doesn’t see as a problem, or that there’s...
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[WN 20240421] Blaming it all on retrograde Mercury
I’ve been feeling “off” for a couple of weeks, but this past one has been particularly challenging somehow. Weird dreams, weird feelings, weird memories. C told me that Mercury is in retrograde. After...
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[WN 20240414] Noclipse
Took Monday off, but not for the popular reason of travelling a few km south-west to see the total solar eclipse (which up here in Barrie was partial, completely obscured by thick clouds, and just...
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Some excellent words
https://taylor.town/words A corpulent and didactic panoply of eldritch lexemes, munificently dispersed
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How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership?
Another excellent article by Chelsea Troy on how common ways to evaluate technical leadership contributions (and knowledge work in general) fail. The section on Positivity really resonated: the...
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[WN 20240407] Binging and Biking
(Better late, and short, than skipped?) Good/bad news: very few new places on the housing market that fit our criteria. Made for a more relaxed work week, but also for more worrying about when (if!)...
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[WN 20240331] Stress butter
House hunting continues. We’re zero for two on offers. This was a quieter week viewings-wise, but I imagine it’ll pick up tomorrow at the start of the month. According to my Garmin, I’ve been having...
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[WN 20240324] House hunting intensifies 😵💫
The housing search was the theme, and it’s ramping up. Saw five places and sent out two offers. Lost one and waiting on another (not looking great). The market is wild, and will only get wilder...
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