My GenAI Toolkit: Lessons from 2024
Dec 25, 2024
This past week, OpenAI announced o3; all reports suggest they’ve achieved some form of AGI. I’m struggling …
I fix broken things.
Strive for progress, not perfection.
Work Orders — Recent Entries
Building a Cohesive and Recognized Team
Dec 15, 2024
Our team of about seventy people is a relatively small part of our company, which has over three thousand employees. …
The One-Hour Communication Triage: How I Stay on Top of Slack and Email
Sep 15, 2024
Before I describe my approach to Slack and Email (the two main communication systems that I use), let me tell you about …
Bring Solutions
Jan 13, 2024
There’s a good chance that problems exist in your company. No team, process, or tool is perfect. Identifying these …
Discipline in Disguise: The Unseen Journey Behind Extraordinary Achievements
Dec 28, 2023
The year 2023 has unfolded in an extraordinary way for me. In January’s first week, my wife and I embarked on a …
Career: Internal Mobility
Nov 25, 2023
Throughout my career in IT, I’ve done a bit of everything. In small and medium-sized companies where I started, it …
Continuous Improvement: The Path to Excellence
Oct 25, 2023
The quest for operational excellence is unending in Cloud Engineering and Operations. We want to do more, better, …
Boost Resilience with Upstream Thinking
Jun 8, 2023
In the high-speed realm of Information Technology, professionals often engage in a continuous cycle of troubleshooting, …
Taking Ownership of Your Career: Invest in Yourself and Achieve Professional Growth
Apr 24, 2023
Imagine you are visiting a lawyer to get assistance with your legal questions. He looks at your request and says: …
Letting Go of the Chainsaw: Lessons from Firefighters for Software Engineers
Apr 17, 2023
I am reading this excellent book called Range, and I just went through an interesting chapter where the author reports …