Tag: blogs
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Will Platform Engineering Get Loved To Death? –
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How to Have Fun at Executive Dinners, Urgency
I’m in Istanbul for a talk at Java Days Istanbul tomorrow. I’ve been publishing stuff to my old blog a lot at cote.io/notebook, which is fun. Here are two things, one a quick link to a piece I’ve been sitting in for awhile about doing “executive dinners” and then a write-up of the need for…
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Be less reliable – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #49
How I find time to make thumbnails for my enterprise videos. Sorry, I flaked The most operational self-help tactic I’ve learned in years is: get comfortably flaking out on things. Missing meetings, being late delivering things, being unreliable, skipping studying Dutch today (and tomorrow)…just failing at living up to your full potential. This thinking works…
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Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism
“Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield against the world crushing your self-confidence. Original source: How to take, and benefit from criticism
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Link: Two great tastes that taste great together
Original source: Two great tastes that taste great together
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…
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Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process to each silo, if that process doesn’t work for that type of technology and approach. Original source: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
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Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the ‘Millennial Problem’ in the Workfor
“All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone wants–work/life balance, recognition when they do a good job, a sense of purpose–this is all stuff managers should be giving to their employees, anyway,” says Michael Greer, a digital marketing consultant who has led employee training and development initiatives for over…
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Link: Annual Letter from Planet Earth
A pretty good moral tent-pole for tech. Link to original
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Karl Lagerfeld’s daily routine, circa 2012
Who doesn’t like a good what’s in bag/what I do each day post? I used to fax a lot, but people don’t have faxes anymore. In this routine, what’s remarkable is how much he avoids people, e.g.: I don’t go out that much because I’m always late, and I’m so busy and so pleased with…
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Link: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
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Business as usual is the only way rigid organisations can operate; workers are shown only what to do, but not why they do it. They are not paid to make value judgements; in fact they are forbidden to do so. When circumstances change, someone with a bit of wisdom would recognise the fact and perhaps…
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\”Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots\”
With a headline like that, what’s not to like? [“Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots”](http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/23/internet_economy_needs_infinite_supply_of_idiots/)
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\”Hell is other people,\” but don’t let that stop you
> Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon. > > So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go,…
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