After an incredibly long run, it was time for me to get a new Linux laptop. A System76 Darter Pro.
Keeping Perspective: Leadership Zingers
Was it really a bad day? or….
You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Dilbert nails it again. I feel like this conversation happens at least three times a week. One would think that with the “Cloud” being around for a few years, with examples of many failed attempts and lessons learned being in relative abundance — This would start to be an exception rather than the rule. Alas, No. \Mm
Leadership Philosophy: The Oasis Within
The Oasis within is a very quick read and if you really haven’t explored some of these concepts in yourself probably well worth the short time to cover. Think of it as a compact, parent-free, sneaky life lessons delivery system for younger adults.
Not a Marketing Person…
I was tuning my DNS and SSL configurations this morning when it dawned on me that even though I moved “Loosebolts” over two years ago to my own instances on Amazon (and before the current reboot), I had never bothered to actually say anything on the old site. I had assumed that making all of the basic technical changes (moving DNS, etc.) my long time followers would follow me. And many did. So I logged on to the old WordPress hosted site, just for completeness, and posted a “I’ve Moved” post. I immediately got responses on social media, my email, and other venues letting me know that many folks (especially RSS followers) had lost touch and were happy to reconnect. …
Sharing One Keyboard and Mouse across multiple machines…
It is an exceptionally handy app that allows you to control up to 4 machines with a single mouse and keyboard. You can still use the directly attached devices but this ultimately allows you to seamlessly move mouse and keyboard across the different machines in one physical work space.
OMG THIS! – Elon Musk’s Three Rules for a Meeting
This Inc Article on Elon Musk’s three rules for meetings is a must read. I say that as it is a spiritual companion philosophy to my own meeting rules where a meeting can only be one of three types: Distribute, Discuss, or Decide. Distribute – Usually a town-hall or informational update where the flow of information is one way and specifically topical. Discuss – We are there to deeply go through an issue, item, or effort. Its a time to get the variables on the table, options evaluated and interested parties engaged. Decide – This is not a Discussion. This is a formal, specific decision on something that has already had one or multiple discussions. \Mm
Balancing Redundancy and Availability – A good think
I recently read an interesting blog post by Marc Brooker who is an engineer at Amazon working on Lambda Services. The full post (found here) is worth a read and some real think time for your own environments. It discusses his four rules around when/how to identify if Redundancy actually assists availability. His rules are simply: The complexity added by introducing redundancy mustn’t cost more availability than it adds. The system must be able to run in degraded mode. The system must reliably detect which of the redundant components are healthy and which are unhealthy. The system must be able to return to fully redundant mode. Source: http://brooker.co.za/blog/2019/06/20/redundancy Some might read those and say “Of course. Common sense.” Except that …
