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What is your role in every meeting no matter what?
Get your questions answered: It you have a list of questions that you need answered, print them before the meeting and tick them off as they are answered. Help keep the meeting focused. If a meeting goes off topic, then say “I appreciate this topic; however... ....I don’t think we can resolve it in the meeting and let’s mark this as an action...
Google’s Site Reliability Engineering Playbook
An excellent resource on keeping sites/services up and running -- after all, reliability is also feature. Google - Site Reliability Engineering — Read on landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/
Deep Learning Basics
While reading Hung Lee's Recruiting Brainfood, I stumbled upon this deep learning primer: The Simple Guide to Deep Learning The primer is great, and a quick read. Here is my quick summary below: The basics of deep learning is to think about how the brain breaks up a specific task. For example, let’s say you are hiking the Appalachian Trail, and...
Ethical OS
Guiding principles for technologists. ethicalos.org/
A Culture Shift: Appreciation
The old adage says, “What you appreciate, appreciates.” Problem Finding Machines: In the day-to-day of work, we become habituated to finding problems, and hopefully solving those problems. In some ways, we become problem finding machines, and this creates a mindset — we look at processes, we look at technology and we look at people and we try to...