Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into managing underperformers, choosing what product features to build, and the benefits of bringing play into your life. Plus, I cover cool how-tos like simplifying homelab management with Ansible, efficiently packing for a 3-day trip, and even deboning a chicken with a ziplock bag! There’s lots more, including fascinating reads on HLS, AI, and digital file archiving. Check it out!
- Managing Underperformers: Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately. Underperformance is when a person or a team is not bearing their share of the organization’s load. Their colleagues are either relying on them and getting let down, or they’ve learned not to rely on them at all. There are two fully unrelated causes of underperformance: Refusal to Align and Failure to Execute. Refusal to align Every person I’ve fired, both ICs and managers, refused to align their goals with the company’s.
- How we decide what to build: There is a point in your product journey where what to build next goes from obvious to unclear. The options seem endless and choosing correctly can be…
- Progress can be slow: We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that’s ok
- How HLS Works: HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) is basically just a bunch of text files in a trench coat pointing at a handful of itty-bitty seconds-long video files
- Building a Perceptron From SCRATCH (no frameworks, only math and python) – The Origins of AI – Ep.1: I sure love AI! And there is nothing better than when you learn how something works from absolute scratch. In this video series, I would like you to join me …
- Simplifying Homelab Management: Automate with Ansible: Welcome back to our Homelab posts! Today, we’re venturing into the realm of automation with Ansible. Ansible is an open-source automation tool that makes it easier to configure and manage computers…
- Automating my Homelab with Ansible (AnsibleFest 2022):
- Fast-Ansible: Ansible Tutorial, Sample Usage Scenarios (Howto: Hands-on LAB):
- We Found the Optimal Way to Pack for a 3-Day Trip With Just a ‘Personal Item’: If a free carry-on isn’t included in your ticket, don’t pay extra for it. Here’s how you can pack a personal item for a weekend trip.
- The Powerful Effect of Bringing Play Into Your Life: By Leo Babauta How much of your day is spent either 1) trying to make yourself do something you really don’t want to do, or 2) avoiding doing that thing you don’t want to force yourself to do (and feeling guilty about it)? In truth, this is most of the day for many people. Trying […]
- De-bone And Shred A Whole Chicken In A Ziplock Bag – Quick & Easy: Looking for an easier way to shred and debone a rotisserie chicken?Watch how easy it is to do with the snaplock/ziplock bag method. Simply add your cooked ch…
- How to Properly Archive Your Digital Files: Will you be able to open today’s Word docs in 20 years? Probably not, unless you take some necessary steps to give those digital files an extra-long shelf life.
- Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look: Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.
- A Boston transit rider was frustrated by a late train. She asked the city to give them googly eyes: No, this isn’t a Thomas the Tank Engine reboot. The trains in Boston now have googly eyes. But why? For fun, of course. In April, Arielle Lok and about 30 other googly eye enthusiasts asked the city’s transit authority to add google eyes to their trains — and they obliged.
- He makes giant trolls out of trash, hides them in woods for people to find: ‘My ultimate goal is to have trolls surprising people in every state,’ said Thomas Dambo, whose latest project is in Detroit Lakes, Minn.