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Jan 6

One unavoidable regret of management.

Twitter has been in the news recently. Don’t worry, this isn’t a Twitter article. The most recent conflagration was this A+ corporate strategy:

Management

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One unavoidable regret of management.
One unavoidable regret of management.
Management

3 min read


Dec 24, 2022

Effective Communication requires more than just Good Communication.

I have written in the past about communication through the lens of information conveyance. That is a useful model for coaching people (usually engineers) to focus more on the audience’s understanding than on their own highly precise broadcast. I have written in the past about communication failure when collaboration is…

Effective Communication

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Effective Communication requires more than just Good Communication.
Effective Communication requires more than just Good Communication.
Effective Communication

12 min read


Published in Better Programming

·Nov 17, 2022

Shipping code is not the goal.

It turns out that absolutely nobody wants to Netflix and chill with Schindler’s List. If you hang around in tech long enough, you hear some great stories. One of my favorites is this recurring problem that Netflix had with their recommendation engine. This engine is meant to replicate the sort…

Agile

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Shipping code is not the goal.
Shipping code is not the goal.
Agile

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Oct 30, 2022

Better Writing Through Gamification

I never set out to become a good writer. My English courses were always my least favorites. I was good with the grammar and vocabulary side of things. Those had a nice, comforting objectivity. …

Writing

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Better Writing Through Gamification
Better Writing Through Gamification
Writing

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Oct 20, 2022

An Algorithm to Find the Minimum Combination of Remainders

Note for Followers: My usual leadership oriented writing will return soon. I have a few drafts in-flight, but today is going to be about number theory and algorithm design. Thank you for your patience and your support. I am a fairly decent Programmer. Which means I am a kind of…

Number Theory

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An Algorithm to Find the Minimum Combination of Remainders
An Algorithm to Find the Minimum Combination of Remainders
Number Theory

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Sep 16, 2022

Good Work. Here’s some more.

One way leaders drive mediocrity. — Indulge me a moment while I tell you a story you’ve heard before. A worker starts a new job. Let’s call her Lisa. She is new, so her manager gives her a nice easy task to start with. She is a good worker, and completes the task quickly. Her manager…

Leadership

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Good Work. Here’s some more.
Good Work. Here’s some more.
Leadership

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Sep 3, 2022

Help Wanted

If you could do it alone, you wouldn’t be on a team. — Recently, BetterHelp released a series of clever commercials that poke fun at the reasons people give to avoid therapy. There is the cattle rancher with the snake bite who wants to tough it out. There’s the guy at the gym who refuses a spotter for fear of anyone finding out…

Teamwork

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Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Teamwork

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Published in Better Programming

·Aug 14, 2022

All Hiring Decisions Are a Gamble (and That’s Okay).

Hiring is filled with uncertainty. It always will be. And uncertainty is the realm of gamblers. — You wish it weren’t true. In a just world, people would be hired on their merits. Skilled managers would know exactly what qualifications they needed for the team. Candidates would go through a rigorous (but humane!) interview process to assess the needed expertise without bias. Compensation would be transparent and…

Hiring

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All Hiring Decisions Are a Gamble (and That’s Okay).
All Hiring Decisions Are a Gamble (and That’s Okay).
Hiring

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Published in Better Programming

·Jul 29, 2022

Tale of the Interview Gunfight

A cautionary tale for interviewers and interviewees alike. — One late afternoon, a figure walks through an anonymous doorway. Inside, a tiny bar like you find in every city. It’s dark and dreary, but the figure moves with familiarity. A regular. That out of work engineer. The bartender knows that look. Unemployment taking its toll. The usual? The engineer…

Interview

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Tale of the Interview Gunfight
Tale of the Interview Gunfight
Interview

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Published in Better Programming

·Jul 11, 2022

You will always have more problems than engineers.

How to deal with a sad reality. — Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? - Brian Kernighan It has always been easier to break things than to make things…

Leadership

7 min read

You will always have more problems than engineers.
You will always have more problems than engineers.
Leadership

7 min read

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Matt Schellhas

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