2021 was a year. I've seen the receipts.
In summing it up, I guess I'll preface it by saying that this, more than any previous year, was one where the shared experience of being the connected human was a more closely bonded one than ever. The shared experience definitely had …
Read MoreI'm allowed one cheat blog post, as a treat.
The twitter thread I posted a while back seems to have gotten some attention. It's reproduced on threadreader but that too shall pass (and I auto-delete my tweets after 90 days), so here's a reproduction.
After 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
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This past week was my first week at elastic.co, where I am now a Director of Engineering - taking on the SRE group and making Elastic Cloud go (Elastic Cloud is essentially the SaaS version of Elastic Search - i.e. you can of course run it yourself, or you can …
Read MoreThe last few days (among other things) saw a little work on the previous project, as well as taking advantage of having new hardware to mess about with.
My desktop OS journey has a 12-year (or so) mac gap in it -- which is to say that I used to use …
Category: Log Tagged: log tech
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