I'll admit it; I just couldn't ignore the opportunity to follow up a post about death with a post titled "Postmortems." Postmortems, in the corporate context, are documents created after the occurrence of an outage or similarly undesired event with sufficient negative impact. The
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 (NASB) Don't worry, this isn't a Bible lesson per se (but I don't promise not to preach). At some point between birth and adulthood,
For a long time, I was dismissive of talk about "dreams": of the desire to change the world, or accomplish great things. It seemed to me, that the only people who talked seriously in this manner were delusional optimists, or people with sufficient money to avoid the unpleasantries
I spent the majority of my childhood having very little expendable income. That's not to say my family was poor, but rather that my parents didn't see the need to provide me a consistent allowance. After all, I had a roof over my head and food
OKR stands for "objectives and key results". I believe this is pretty standard lingo in larger tech companies (and possibly other industries) describing a process/deliverable/trackable/measurable/accountable/assignable thing that most employees have to participate in or work with. I think it's also one
This first post is here to set the stage and explain why I'm blogging and what topics readers can expect to encounter on this website. Motivation I feel a general, mild sense of unease underlying the emotional currents of my everyday life. Like coasting along in a ship