6 strategies on how to make important decisions: Write it down Address your feelings Compare alternatives Sweeten the deal Talk to others Flip a coin Write it down Put your thoughts down in writing. This takes the intangible out of your mind and makes it tangible. This is inspired by CBT or Cognitive…

OpenAI, a research institute and technology company dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence, is undoubtedly the future of AI. Founded in 2015 by some of the most renowned and respected figures in the tech industry, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, OpenAI has quickly established itself as a leader…

Why should you open source? Here are some reasons: Community Skills Recognition Monetary Community

How do you know when it’s time to quit your job? When the following are true: Unhappy No growth New opportunity Unhappy

This article goes over how to run standup — a recurring Agile meeting. Before Standup If you’re doing Scrum or Kanban in Jira, then it may be useful to create a board filter that: includes high priority tickets (e.g., P0, P1, P2) includes tickets being worked on by your team excludes tickets…

This article goes over how to propose changes with RFCs (Request for Comments). RFC Request for Comments (RFC) is a useful tool for proposing, sharing, and discussing a change you’d like to make. Goals: Convey a problem or change. Get buy-in from stakeholders for a proposal. Document the reasons for a…

This article goes over how to estimate when an epic will be done using the methods: T-Shirt Ticket Count Story Points Monte Carlo T-Shirt

This post goes over how to deploy Apache Airflow to Heroku. See the repository. Stack Celery Mailgun PostgreSQL Redis Env Ensure the config vars from app.json are set in your Heroku app: AIRFLOW__CELERY__WORKER_CONCURRENCY=2 AIRFLOW__CORE__FERNET_KEY= AIRFLOW_HOME=/app AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__BASE_URL= AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__COOKIE_SAMESITE=Strict AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__COOKIE_SECURE=True AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__SECRET_KEY= AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__WORKERS=2

‎Remarkable Podcast: Remarkable Podcast 3: How To Build High-Performance Teams With Alberto… This is the third episode of the "Remarkable Podcast" with host Mark and guest Alberto Silveira. Alberto is the author…podcasts.apple.com Description This is the third episode of the “Remarkable Podcast” with host Mark and guest Alberto Silveira. Alberto is the author of “Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams” and has led multiple product engineering teams.