Short a quick trip to Zurich in January 2020, the trip I was on was the last time I travelled outside Ireland, until now. I also don't plan on going anywhere until mid-2021 or thereabouts.
Much as all that's been written about how this year has been, one of the …
Category: Log Tagged: log catchup
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It's been over two years, and while I'm still patiently waiting for the demise of Medium, it only took re-running pelican-quickstart to make my makefiles work again. Plus we haven't deprecated serving static content just yet, so there's that.
Most of the selling points for blog platforms these days is …
Category: Log Tagged: log catchup travel
Read MoreThe last few months have been a bit hectic, let's say that.
In work, a few things happened. I got promoted to 'Director', which is the top end of the management progression, bottom of executive. What either of these mean, I'll probably never know. About a year or so …
Category: Log Tagged: log life
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
Read MoreThis is a paper I wrote for consumption of people doing conferences and trainings at Google. I figured it was more generally applicable, so here it is: Conferences for Introverts
Category: Writing Tagged: writing conferences introverts
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