Author: dineth
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Play the long game with people, the short game with outcomes
Recently, @henry sent over my 2020 performance evaluation I had shared with him. I was just about to go from Principal to Director role. I’m still trying to get good at this. Such wonderful advice from @AC. Thanks boss! Play the long game with people, the short game with outcomes. Knowing how much to push,…
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Car crashes and sticking to your lane
My team recently made the decision to not have QA role as part of experience engineering. There were a lot of complains on increased workload and not wanting to do testing, including some valid reasoning around testing not being an area of expertise. I’ve heard similar complaints when we spoke about creating dashboards and alerts…
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Anticipatory Failure Determination
[AFD] has the objective of identifying and mitigating failures. Rather than asking developers to look for a cause of a failure mode, it reverses the problem by asking developers to view the failure of interest as the intended consequence and try to devise ways to assure that the failure always happens reliably Interesting way to…
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Love the new Mini’s digital dashboard
…and there are physical buttons! Tesla’s dashboard definitely looks dated next to this.
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Pi, an AI Assistant
Really impressive AI assistant from Inflection AI. They’ve gotten the tone right. Not OpenAI based. https://pi.ai/talk Me: Can you introduce yourself so I can write about you? Pi: Absolutely! I’m Pi, an AI chatbot developed by Inflection AI. I’m designed to be friendly, informative and engaging, and I can chat about a wide range of…
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The Bear and shows about teamwork
I love TV shows that show great teamwork. They aren’t always easy to find. Most shows tend to focus on an individual character and their story arc. I’ve been watching The Bear recently and it is one of those. The Bear is about a restaurant that is in the brink of falling over. Most characters…
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Big redesign in the sky
This is perhaps one of the greatest articles every written on software rewrites. Every single developer should read and understand what it is trying to say. …but the reality of green field projects is that they create the illusion that your messes don’t matter. Your messes do matter. Every single one of your messes matters.…
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Building trust at work
Today I met a friend who has left his job only months after joining. His team lead had huge trust issues. Everything had to flow through him. He made all the decisions. There was a lot of frustration when people were proactive. I’m surprised he spent that long in this environment at all. However, it…
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Questions for Engineering Manager interviews
These are some questions I’ve had written down as we looked for a manager a while ago. Not an exhaustive list or the top 10. Just some questions worth thinking about. Hope this helps. Motivation Maker Mindset Feedback Conflict Resolution Mentorship Technology Morale Prioritisation