I wasn’t thinking about the pipeline problem over the holidays. I was mostly trying to decide between several open bottles of wine, calculating whether I could possibly pack more of the chicken tagine into my body, and keeping an eye on the dog who’d been terrorizing my two and a half year old. The five year old was […]
There’s a big difference between a master mechanic and the guy at Jiffy-Lube who knows how to change your fluids; assembly language, C, C++, Java, and Lisp programmers; command line and GUI users; kernel programmers and Linux users. I’ve been using various flavors of *nix for the better part of 30 years, but as I […]
Here are some things I recommend to my family. My friends. My coworkers. Sometimes, to complete strangers. Some are funny, some are serious, some are just plain strange. Some are longer, others shorter. But I think they’re all worth taking the time. Do this. Watch Dove Evolution This is Water It’s not about the nail […]
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been running a reading group for the managers and leads on my teams. We just finished The Power of a Positive No, which was written by one of the authors of the highly influential Getting to Yes. This had been recommended to me by a member of TripAdvisor senior management, […]
I live in Rhode Island, and have been commuting up to the Boston area for the past four and a half years. On good days this takes under an hour, on bad days, well, you don’t want to know. Anyway, I quickly realized that this was going to be years taken off of my life […]
It’s hard to help people develop, especially when it comes to the soft skills involved in management. You can give them new responsibilities, push them with concrete tasks in areas in which they’re weak, or discuss issues and possible solutions… but this presupposes that you know what the problems are, and that you know how […]
Dan Dreams of Coding 