Presentations
“Finding and Exploring ADS-B data”
All Things Open, Oct. 14, 2019
“Growing internal tooling from the console up”
RailsConf, April 30, 2019
Resources
In the talk, I mentioned three books and one podcast. I’d like to properly link them here:
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
- Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind by Dan Charnas
- The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
- Greater Than Code, a podcast
“Exploring the History of a 12-year-old Rails Application”
RailsConf, April 25, 2017
“Improving Communication Practices”
Charlotte DevOpsDays, Nov. 2, 2015 / All Things Open, Oct. 2016
“Establishing Yourself”
Triangle Ruby Brigade, July 8, 2014
“Improving Communication”
Triangle DevOps, January 15, 2014
- Slides (PDF, ~500 kilobytes)
“Change is hard and easier than you think”
Developer Day, February 27, 2010
Summary: When you’re a new manager and have a lot you want to get done, it’s very easy to take your foot off the gas in response to obstacles you think you might hit, but might not actually be there.
- Slides (PDF, 3 megabytes)
- YouTube video
“Productivity of a Submariner”
BarCampRDU, August 8, 2009
Summary: We can be continuously online, and that presents two problems. One, we expect to constantly drink from the fire hose and two, we train others to interrupt us at any moment. I’ll talk about why it’s a bad scene and a way I’m working at fixing it.
- Slides (PDF, 4.4 megabytes)
- Resource Links