One of the most constructive things I've found when facing a difficult work situation is to externalise and write things down -- I do quite well with talking things through with folks, and coaching and mentoring is something I get a lot of energy out of. When it's just me and …
Category: Writing Tagged: work coaching
Read MoreI spent a number of days at SRECon 2022 in Amsterdam, and gave a talk that I'd had rattling around in my head for a wee while - roughtly based on a paper I left at Google when I left.
Laura was good enough to suggest it as a ;login: article …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing oncall sre
Read MoreAfter being asked by a work colleague to say words about OKRs and if they're a good thing to adopt, I realised I had more words than fit in an email or short doc -- so, here's a slightly longer doc on my view of OKRs, tempered by 15 years or …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing okrs
Read MoreThanks to my accomodating erstwhile colleagues, I'm able to publish the original paper (with minor redactions so it makes sense for an external audience). A version of this paper later became Chapter 29 of the SRE Book.
To add a little bit of extra colour, the document came out of …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing
Read MoreThis is something I wrote for new Googlers, drinking from the information hose. It's not formally part of the onboarding process, but enough people email me about it that I suspect it's passed around a lot informally.
(With Apologies to Mary Schmich)
Everybody's Free (To Use Their Best Judgment)
Category: Writing Tagged: writing
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