Distances - Know them. Manage them.
2021-06-01 Management Culture Remote Thoughts
Building and managing remote-first organizations means that you also need to understand (and manage) distances!
To develop your ability to understand ...
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(The Extreme) 100 Day Walking Challenge
2021-05-15 Personal Thoughts
In January I had a good call with my friend Braggy in Sydney. The insight was, that 2020 was different to what I/we expected, but with 20/20 ...
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What's a Staff Director?
2020-08-31 Management Thoughts Culture
Community is growing fast.
More business. More customers. More people. More money. More (necessary) complexity (software and people).
The demand for ...
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Roland ... what's in a name
2020-04-13 Personal Culture Thoughts
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A ...
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The American election ... 1 year after
2018-01-21 Personal Politics Thoughts
The dust has settled. All opinions have been voiced. All articles have been written. Not quite … here is another one :).
I am struggling with ...
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I am a lucky guy :) ...
2017-01-18 Software-Engineering Conferences Thoughts
Sometimes it takes a while to get to it …
Last year I was opening Data-by-the-Bay and was welcoming/addressing the attendees. Wanted to turn ...
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Getting GTD done - Thoughts and Tools
2013-08-19 Personal Management Tips & Tricks Thoughts
We all have a lot to do. Effective time/task management is essential. I’ve been using GTD (Getting Things Done) for a while now (a long while :)) and ... Read More
About broken windows and software gardening ... - Thoughts from The Pragmatic Programmer
2013-02-16 Software-Engineering Books Culture Thoughts
These days I am writing more source code again (mostly Scala) and decided to (re)read a couple of books to refresh some thoughts and ideas and ... Read More
Cloud Computing - A practical guide for the common user
2011-05-01 Software-Engineering Cloud-Computing Thoughts
These days (and especially after the Amazon EC2 outage :)) everybody is talking about cloud computing. It seems you cannot be sexy, if you do not ... Read More
Managing complexity with OSGi - In bundles and between bundles
2010-04-22 Software-Engineering OSGi Thoughts
Right now the Brandvis SelectPortal system is based on Microsoft .NET and we constantly improve it and add features. While we do this we also ...Read More