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Golang Griesemer's experiment to test error's try proposal
Go 1.11 released
Help Let's Encrypt to Keep the Internet Secure
Go 1.11 Rc1 released
'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
Net Neutrality in Brazil in Jeopardy
Vgo support landed in main go repo
The story of Mel, the real programmer, explained
And also Ackoff's talks on Systems Thinking:
Mystery of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope lens is partly solved
From their faq: https://serenata.ai/en/faq/
1 - We were inspired by the Toblerone Affair, a case in which a Swedish politician was pushed to resign after being caught paying simple Toblerone chocolate bar with public money. That’s what we want to do: empower social control of public expenditures including values as low as a chocolate bar.
The Dead Simple Guide to Being a Good Manager (2011)
When I average the year, I have been having more productive years more or less consistent. Like the global warming, the year that wasn't really productive was still higher than the least productive year before the last peak.
Well, with all that said, some patterns seemed clear to me:
1 - Societal overload: that place and country you live directly affect your productivity. I lived for many years in the biggest city of a 3rd World country, where the government works daily to make your life miserable and hard. The moment I moved to Europe, I had a surge of productivity because those "little" things that rob you of your energy were gone: the violence, the crappy infrastructure, and a technology market generations behind than the 1st World.
2 - Peers Level: being the ugliest among the pretty is better than being the prettiest among the ugly. When you are the least good among very competent engineers you have a lot of opportunities to learn from people that know more and better than you. You become a sponge of methods that can help you to work better and faster.
3 - Reused experience: The best world scenario is to be a generalist and be able to work on whatever is thrown at your hands because you are clever and skilled. However, it doesn't mean that you can't get really skilled and experienced in some aspect of your craft. For instance, through the years I become an expert on bootstrapping greenfield projects and prepare to hand them over to a team that will look after them. This has been invaluable and my longest days streak happened in this situation.
4 - Keep reassessing your toolset all the time: we tend to feel comfortable and confident with the tools we know how to use. That's fine. But keep an eye open to new technologies. There might be one new technology that solves (or attempts to solve) some fundamental problem that you daily face - that if it didn't exist, you would be even more productive.
5 - Manage your attention: nowadays we live in a world perfected to steal your attention. Learn how to manage it effectively. You can't be productive if you are distracted or constantly interrupted.
I hope it helped you. (PS: HN is a huge attention stealer.)
Ask HN: What are the quintessential jobs of a manager?
In your opinion, what's the quintessential job of a manager?I've heard in the past, for example, that a job of a manager is to create the condition for people to do their best work, and make it hard for them to stay if they suck.I'm not sure this is right, but this fits a single description.
The on-prem part is really neat.
Disclaimer: I work at StrongDM.
Edit: fixed typo