Willing Ignorance
By Tim Brown
| May 25, 2020
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You can break through barriers and limits and when you do you’ll often find that those weren’t the limits. If you’re going to go past average and do something impossible, by definition most people won’t believe it’s possible. You almost need the ability for willful ignorance. I’ve always had this visualization of being at the edge of a cliff and stepping off only to realize that I wasn’t actually at the edge; that my perception of reality was off.
Don't Fight Stupid, Make More Awesome
By Tim Brown
| May 20, 2020
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Velocity 2012: Jesse Robbins, “Changing Culture & Being a force for Awesome” I first ran across Jesse Robbings as a user of Chef for infrastructure automation. He has a great backstory and has a perspective that provides some very good insight!
“Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both.
Installing Selenium for Eclipse with Java
This guide assumes that you already have Eclipse and Java installed. You’ll want to download the latest stable Java release from the Selenium website.
Configuring WebDriver
Once downloaded, extract the zipped file to a folder of your choosing. I personally put Eclipse right in my C: directory and put the Selenium files within a folder called “selenium”. The extracted files will be all of the required jar files which enable you to create test scripts in Java.
Leveling Up
Taking your engineering & operations role to the next level One of the funnier tech presentations that I have ever run across with plenty of good content.
“At conferences there are always talks covering technical strategies, new tools and software, but this talk will aim to cover something completely different – the soft skills needed to be the very best at any job in operations or engineering. Most organizations are moving into a DevOps culture where the line between system administrators, operators, and developers is much more blurry, and to be great in these environments it is no longer enough to be technically knowledgeable in your specialty, it’s also necessary that you have great interpersonal skills including strong communication and emotional intelligence.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Tim Brown
| May 6, 2020
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 1: Be Proactive Your life doesn’t just “happen.” Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice.
Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
By Tim Brown
| May 5, 2020
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‘Suppose the stakeholders say “Can we get THESE features by christmas”. That’s a fixed time, fixed scope question. Looking at trend lines, Pat says “Nope, sorry, it ain’t gonna happen”, followed by “here’s how much we can get done by christmas” or “here’s how much more time we need”. It’s generally better to reduce scope than to extend time, because if we reduce scope first, we still have the option to extend the time later and add the rest of the stories.
MVP VS Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
By Tim Brown
| May 5, 2020
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MVP is really the:
Earliest Feedbackable Product
Earliest Testable Product
Earliest Usable Product
Earliest Lovable Product
Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
The Now Habit
By Tim Brown
| May 5, 2020
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The Now Habit Key Takeaways and Insights Live your life from choice
A leadership function of your higher, human brain and your new identity as a producer.
Procrastinators do finish, but the work at the last minute creates unnecessary anxiety and diminishes quality.
Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.
Creating safety Reprogramming negative attitudes through positive self-talk Using the symptom to trigger the cure Guilt-free play Three-dimensional thinking and the reverse calendar Making worry work for you The Unschedule Setting realistic goals Working in the flow state Controlled setbacks Our worst critic is ourselves
Twitter CodeInB8A Self
By Tim Brown
| Aug 25, 2020
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This list does change, so make sure to bookmark the ones that look good! 4 Reasons Execution Matters More Than Knowledge via @Entrepreneur @empoweredpeeps https://t.co/XjYQqt5BZE #codeinb8a #selfimprovement
— Tim Brown (@inb8a) May 14, 2020
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
By Tim Brown
| May 5, 2020
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A Sunny Disposition Likability has something to do with how you look, but a lot more to do with how you make people feel. Likeable people give loud and clear signals of their willingness to be sociable; they reveal that their public communication channels are open. Embedded in these signals is evidence of self-confidence, sincerity, and trust.
Instinctively, we assess, undress and best-guess each other. And if we can’t present ourselves fast and favorably, we run the risk of being politely, or impolitely, passed over.
