I've written about promotions before, particularly in contrasting the differences between prescriptive and descriptive promotions and generally favoring the latter. In quick summary, the former rewards excellence with current responsibilities by showing confidence in a broader assignment, while the latter is a lagging acknowledgment of solid execution at the next level. It'...
I'm booooored! We typically hear this from one of our kids within an hour of one of our road trips. Also when they're stuck inside the house because it's raining outside[1]. And once they've exhausted the novelty of opening and briefly playing with their Christmas gifts....
Over winter break, we took a road trip from the Bay Area down to Death Valley National Park and the Vegas + LA metro areas for a week. As I traded a gas-powered Volvo XC90 for...
This is a bit of old news at this point, but I can't help but be amused by this retelling of a small part of the ongoing Twitter drama: Geohot wants to “refactor” everything. Elno explains to him that if he doesn’t launch features they’ll go bankrupt. “Why, what’s the...
As I'm writing this, it's been about 3 months since Elon Musk took Twitter private for $44 billion and started shaping it to his liking. In that short amount of time, I don't think anyone, outside of a handful of Elon sycophants, would say things have gone well: it&...
What happens when you type in google.com and press enter? That used to be one of the interview questions I asked, and it's still one of my favorites; the idea is to talk a candidate through parts of their chosen technical stack. Most often we spend most of our time on the...
